Category: Health
Save Money On Heart-worm Medicine For Dogs: Split Meds, And Use Generic
Actually I am a little surprised I had not thought about this earlier as I used to pay the same price for heart-worm medicine for our 10 pound and our 100 pound dogs.
People who want to save money on their medication split pills, getting – for instance getting a 20 mg prescription for Crestor and cutting it in half when they only need 10 mg.
Why not for dogs?
Mindfulness: An Ancient Remedy for a Modern Problem
Mindfulness is an ancient technology that has relevance to today’s problem of chronic stress overload. Part of the reason we are chronically stressed is because there is a mismatch between the environments our stress systems evolved within and the challenges of contemporary life (see my previous entry on “Stress is Crucial, So Is Learning to [...]
Cargill Recalling Beef Sold By BJ’s in Connecticut and Seven Other States
About 8,500 pounds of beef sold by BJ’s in eight states in mid-June have been recalled by Cargill after three became sick from a strain of E.coli. None were hospitalized. Two people in Maine and in in New York were ill, but none seriously, government officials said today. “It was a relief it wasn’t more [...]
Conn Officials Turn Up The Heat On Rite Aid Price Increases
Following a request by Conn. Gov. Rell, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), today issued a subpoena to Rite Aid demanding information about significant changes and price increases to a discount drug program that the company falsely blamed on a new state law. The law requires pharmacies to [...]
Know Your “Stress Signatures” and other Tips for Managing Stress
The first principle to handling stress is to know your self. You must be able to monitor your body’s responses to a situation to know when you are becoming stressed and remaining stressed.
The body registers characteristic stress “signatures” such as increased heart rate, sweating, or muscle tension. The exact signatures are individual.
For some people, stress shows up in the body as headache, jaw clenching, or gastrointestinal distress. What are your stress signatures? Noticing when these are happening let’s you know that stress is present. Their presence can also be a reminder to work with the stressful circumstance in a way that can help to reduce the stress.
Vitamin-D: We May Need More Than We Think
While no one is recommending super dosing Vitamin D or burning to a crisp oiled up, more health officials believe that higher dosage of the vitamin can have positive effect against cancer, heart disease and cognition. The latest issue of Time (Aug. 30) says new guidelines will be coming out soon. In the meanwhile, as [...]
Kevin’s Core Workout You Can Do At Home: Chest
Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 27th training video, this time focusing on the chest in a workout you can do at home. Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow where [...]
Rite Aid Being Investigated By Blumenthal
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced that he is investigating whether Rite Aid illegally blamed its increased drug charges on a new law that requires the chain to extend the same discounts to the state’s Medicaid program that it offers all consumers. Blumenthal said he will investigate in cooperation with other state agencies, including the [...]
“Powerful Joint Pill” Trigosamine Costs $15 More Through Newspaper Ad
Have you wondered who really pays for the half-page “Powerful Joint Pill” Trigosamine newspaper ads? The buyers of these supposed powerful joint pills. If you purchase the pills through the ad in yesterday’s Courant, you pay $131.85 for a six month supply. You get the same pills through Amazon for about $115.
How To Save Money While Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol, Raising Your Good
As Consumer Reports points out: “Cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins reduce the chances of a heart attack and death in people who have an elevated risk of developing heart disease, or who already have heart disease. “Nearly 22 percent of adults 45 or older take a statin drug, making this the most commonly prescribed class [...]
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