Month: December 2015

Is exercise a good treatment for depression?

What are the symptoms and treatment for a black widow spider bite?

What should you do if you were bitten by a tick?

Do women often have mood changes due to perimenopause? Can you offer any information about how long the period of menopause can last, between night sweats to light-to-no period? Does it last a matter of months or years? And is it inevitable that your metabolism slows down?

How can I tell the difference between chicken pox and poison ivy or sumac rash?

My friend has stage 3 kidney disease. His doctor asked him to eat foods low in potassium. So far, we can't find potassium in the nutrition information available on food labels. Is there anywhere he can get a list of foods low in potassium?

I have persistent low back pain and my doctor suggested epidural injections. How well do they work? What are the risks?

My daughter is complaining about her neck hurting. Is it OK to use Icy Hot or Ben-gay on her muscles to see if this relieves the pain?

I have been diagnosed with gallstones. What foods can I eat to help them dissolve so I don't have to have surgery?

My 14-year-old daughter has been increasingly getting white hair. It started about a year ago. What is this? What should we do?