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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 to 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.
Harvard Health Letters Samples
By the way, doctor: What should an exam for skin cancer include?
Q. Since having a basal cell carcinoma removed from my forehead in 1992, I've gotten a full-body examination by a dermatologist every six months. I recently went to a new dermatologist.
What's up...and what's not
Selenium, a mineral with antioxidant properties, became a cancer prevention candidate in the mid-1990s after a secondary analysis of results from a skin cancer prevention study found that the men assigned to take selenium pills had 63% fewer cases...
Changing the cardiovascular prevention game
Results from a large clinical trial may mean a new era of super-low LDL targets and anti-inflammatory strategies.
Do PPIs have long-term side effects?
Nexium and the other proton-pump inhibitors are great at reducing stomach acid, but that might have some unintended consequences. âMadison Avenue has given stomach acid a bad name, but it's really kind of a bum rap.
Measuring how fat we are
Weighing the pros and cons of three measures of adiposity. Most of us have our private ways of assessing how fat we are. Of course, there are more objective ways of answering the question.
By the way, doctor: Is ankle fusion my only option?
Q. I have injury-related osteoarthritis in my right ankle.
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