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  1. Taking too many medications can cause health risks. Here's how to avoid them

    Taking too many medications can cause health risks. Here's how to avoid them

    Quebec City, Canada, when we see an older family member handling a bulky box of medications arranged by day of the week, we might stop and ask ourselves: Is it too much? How do all those pills interact?The fact is that as we age we are more likely to develop different chronic diseases that...
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  2. Why, for some people, psychotherapy may be a better treatment for depression than drugs

    Why, for some people, psychotherapy may be a better treatment for depression than drugs

    Dublin, During a psychotherapy session, one of my patients told me that the antidepressants her doctor had given her had "killed her will". He felt, he told me, “dead inside.” Unfortunately, this was not an isolated case. I have heard similar descriptions of the effects of antidepressant...
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  3. Why can uncontrolled high blood pressure be a significant health threat?

    Why can uncontrolled high blood pressure be a significant health threat?

    World Hypertension Day is observed every year on 17 May. This year's theme is "Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer."Resistant hypertension is high blood pressure that does not respond well to aggressive medical treatment. About 20 percent of patients with high BP or...
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