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Harvard Health Letters
Each month, the five Harvard Health Letters are filled with the latest, most accurate information on everything from supplements to strength training, pacemakers to prostate cancer, pain relief and post-traumatic stress syndrome. Lively feature stories, Q&As, briefs and graphics by Harvard University experts fill the pages of the Health Letter, Heart Letter, Women’s Health Watch, Men’s Health Watch and the Mental Health Letter. All art is available.
Harvard Health Letters Samples
Ask the doctor: Are generics as good as brand-name drugs?
Q. My doctor says I should switch to the generic version of Lipitor, but is it really the same as Lipitor? A. Many of my patients are asking the same question. A generic drug contains the same chemical as the corresponding brand-name drug.
Ask the doctor: Is there a connection between diabetes and sleep apnea?
Q. I have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. A. There's one sure connection between type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea: if you're overweight, you have an increased risk of developing both conditions.
Niacin + a statin does not add up to benefit
In 2011, federal health officials ended an important government-funded clinical trial designed to test whether taking niacin in addition to a cholesterol-lowering statin might do more to lower heart attack and stroke risk than just taking a statin...
Conversation with a Harvard doctor: Talking about heart failure
Dr. Lynne Warner Stevenson is a Harvard Medical School professor and director of the heart failure program within the Advanced Heart Disease Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Heart failure â that's such a scary term.
&%!!# helps when you're hurting
In 2009, British psychology researchers reported the results of a study that showed swearing altered pain perception.
What is a tailor's bunion?
Regular bunions affect the big toe; a tailor's bunion, the little toe. Both types are caused by a misalignment of the small bones in the toes.
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