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Vitamin Deficiency Symptoms: Early Warning Signs and How to Fix Them

Edge Family Medicine

Introduction Are you constantly feeling tired, struggling with brittle nails, or noticing unexpected hair loss? These could be vitamin deficiency symptoms. Many people overlook these early warning signs, attributing them to stress or aging. However, deficiencies in essential vitamins like B12, D, and iron can affect your energy, immune system, and overall well-being.

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She suspected a heart attack, but was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome

NPR Health

Broken Heart Syndrome mimics symptoms of a heart attack. It can strike after a stressful event, such as the loss of a loved one, a physical shock, or prolonged anxiety. The good news: It's treatable.

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Medical Music Mondays: Beneath the Surface

PEMBlog

Cellulitis is like an infection of the icing – if you imagine the skin as a piece of cake that it. Treat with cephalexin – red, hot, swollen, and tender – and sometimes fever and systemic symptoms. I could’ve wrote a song about erysipelas but it doesn’t rhyme with anything. Lyrics Fast spreading and red I hope I’m not dead don’t want to be bacteremic from just my skin red, hot, swollen, and tender skin infection, not a life ender cephalexin is the first

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When online weight-loss drugs are too good to be true

NPR Health

A telehealth company partnered with a pharmacy that lacked a required license, raising doubts about the safety and efficacy of the weight-loss medicines it mailed to patients.

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She suspected a heart attack, but was diagnosed with broken heart syndrome

NPR Health

Stress-induced cardiomyopathy mimics symptoms of a heart attack, even elevating a key 'heart attack' enzyme in blood. It's born of a stressful event, such as loss of a loved one or a dramatic experience or shock. It's most common in women over 50. The good news: People usually make a full recovery.

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His wife was dying from cancer. A kind gesture offered some peace

NPR Health

When David Jefferson's wife fell ill, a friend went out of her way to help the family cope.

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Health agencies lose staff in key areas as Trump firings set in

NPR Health

As the dust settles from the first wave of firings at health agencies, here's how many people got cut, and the impact of the roles that were lost.

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