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Health Tip: Know Your Risk for Anemia

By ariannawmd on September 16, 2014

Anemia occurs when the blood lacks enough red blood cells, often due to poor diet or disease.

The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute mentions these risk factors for anemia:

Eating a poor diet that’s deficient in minerals, vitamins or iron.
Being pregnant, which increases blood volume and draws iron and folic acid from the blood.
Having a baby, especially if the infant is born prematurely.
Losing blood, often due to injury or surgery.
Having a chronic illness or infection.
Having a family history of inherited anemia.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Know Your Risk for Anemia

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