Is your aspirin making your head hurt? Popping painkillers every time your head hurts may actually make the pain worse. Here's how to ease the ache

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An overuse of pain medications for headaches may actually made the condition worse through so-called 'rebound headaches. The most common scenario involves a headache that comes about as a result of the body's withdrawal from painkillers. Methods of coping with rebound headaches are discussed.

Prevention, Drug therapy, Pain, Analgesics, Headache

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Can this medical plan be saved? How to make your HMO work for you

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Problems with HMO plans can arise that are not only inconvenient, but costly and possibly life-threatening. Emergency treatment away from a plan hospital, and referrals are just two problems that can surface. Tips are given on how be be more proactive in getting the best from an HMO plan.

Analysis, Evaluation, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Managed care plans (Medical care), Health maintenance organizations

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The right way to treat high blood pressure; how to avoid the mistakes that doctors make

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The biggest mistakes physicians make in hypertension treatment include relying on too few blood-pressure readings to make a diagnosis and failing to intervene early enough. Other common mistakes are listed, and advice for helping a patient prevent them is included.

Care and treatment, Management, Hypertension, Measurement, Blood pressure, Self-care, Health, Self care (Health), Blood pressure measurement

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