Potassium (generic), Slow-K, K-Lyte News

DEAR DR. GOTT : I'm from Australia. While visiting a friend in America, I read your column in the newspaper about chronic constipation.

Dear Dr. Gott: Last August, my wife had a routine blood test ordered by her cardiologist.

A HOUGHTON teenager who had been accepted as a student at Cambridge University died in January after fighting a long battle with an eating disorder, an inquest heard on Wednesday.

About two months after the surgery, she started having trouble keeping food down.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have head sweats, and I mean bigtime. It makes no difference if it's summer or winter.

Two medications commonly used to treat high blood pressure appear to be effective in treating one of the most common and potentially deadly forms of heart disease, according to a report by UConn scientists.

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Two medications commonly used to treat high blood pressure appear to be effective in treating a common type of heart disease known as stable ischemic heart disease, according to a new comparative effectiveness review funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Ouch! There's nothing worse than being awakened from a deep sleep with painful muscle cramps.

Updated May 19, 2006 Dialysis The process of cleaning and filtering the blood, ridding the body of harmful waste products and extra salts and fluids.

Potassium is one of the most important minerals for regulating bodily functions.

A Franconia cattle feed company has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle federal charges that it shipped formaldehyde and another chemical to farmers to give to calves being raised for veal, then tried to hide it from the Food and Drug Administration.

Addison's disease has been called "The Great Pretender" because it mimics hundreds of other diseases.

State health officials on Tuesday began a three-day distribution of potassium iodide tablets, handing out the chemical to protect those living within a 10-mile radius of five nuclear plants in Pennsylvania.

Brewer's yeast is included in a class of probiotics or biotherapeutic agents defined as "live microbial supplements," which beneficially affect a host by improving its natural microbial balance.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 54. Last year, after two months in two different hospitals, I was diagnosed with Addison's disease.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 54. Last year, after two months in two different hospitals, I was diagnosed with Addison's disease.

A clear liquid diet consists of clear liquids, such as water, broth and plain gelatin, that are easily digested and leave no undigested residue in your intestinal tract.

Sugar, citric acid/malic acid, artificial flavour , sodium citrate, salt, disodium phosphate, potassium citrate, silicon dioxide, colour, ascorbic acid, gum arabic, cellulose gum.

Ginger is a root that is used in many culinary as well as medicinal applications.