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Your Good Health: Proton-pump inhibitors recommended for Barrett’s

Your Good Health: Proton-pump inhibitors recommended for Barrett’s

Barrett’s is a condition where abnormal lining of the esophagus occurs due to years of acid exposure
Your Good Health: Reactive airway disease causes coughing, wheezing

Your Good Health: Reactive airway disease causes coughing, wheezing

Standard immediate treatment for reactive airway disease is an albuterol inhaler.
Your Good Health: Knee replacement leaves patient with more pain than before

Your Good Health: Knee replacement leaves patient with more pain than before

Could try MRI to look for surgical complications, including loosening and instability
To Your Good Health: Meds still necessary after transplant years ago

To Your Good Health: Meds still necessary after transplant years ago

Question: Nine years after the kidney transplant, wouldn’t my body have accepted this new organ as its own and the immunosuppressant drugs would no longer be necessary?
Your Good Health: Gauging concern for palpitations needs investigation

Your Good Health: Gauging concern for palpitations needs investigation

Palpitations are when the heart beats in a particularly forceful, irregular or rapid fashion
Your Good Health: Spinal cord stroke leaves woman paralyzed from waist down

Your Good Health: Spinal cord stroke leaves woman paralyzed from waist down

Spinal cord strokes are rare — 1% of all strokes, but can be devastating.
Your Good Health: Weight-loss drugs only for severe obesity

Your Good Health: Weight-loss drugs only for severe obesity

The benefits of weight-loss drugs only outweigh the risks in people who have (or are at a very high risk for) a medical problem due to their weight.
Your Good Health: Pregnant woman may have myocardial bridging

Your Good Health: Pregnant woman may have myocardial bridging

In this congenital condition, the heart muscle wraps around a coronary artery and vigorous exercise can lead to constricted blood flow
Your Good Health: Drop in patient's kidney function score not a concern

Your Good Health: Drop in patient's kidney function score not a concern

It is normal for the eGFR or estimated glomerular filtration rate to decrease slowly after the age of 18
Your Good Health: Abnormal infarction on an EKG brings worry of a heart attack

Your Good Health: Abnormal infarction on an EKG brings worry of a heart attack

Test patterns anomolies in the septum near electrical wires that attach to the chest unlikely to be an attack 80% of the time