Note: this article is provided by ONU Healthwise Pharmacy.
Here are nine products to consider stocking in your medicine cabinet to keep yourself and your family healthy.
1. Pain and fever reducer
If you have pain or a fever, having acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) in your medicine cabinet is important.
When taking these medications, do not exceed the recommended daily amounts. Taking more than recommended can be harmful.
These types of medications may not be safe for some people. Be sure to speak with your health care provider about which pain and fever reducer is the safest for you.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Host Bluffton ran out to a sizeable halftime lead and posted a 61-44 win over local rival Ada in the Northwest Conference boys basketball opener for both teams Friday night.
The Pirates improved to 3-0 and 1-0 in league play with the victory, while the Bulldogs fell to 1-4 and 0-1 with the defeat.
Bluffton extended a six-point first period lead to 15 at halftime with a 19-10 second period outburst. The Pirates essentially maintained that lead the rest of the way to win by 17.
Birchaven Village and Independence House, divisions of Blanchard Valley Health System, have earned a Five Star Overall ranking from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Recognitions such as this are a measure of how well we are doing,” said Bridgett Mundy, Director of both facilities. “Throughout our organization we have forged a culture that inspires people to do the extraordinary every day.”
Nursing Home Compare allows consumers to compare information about long term care facilities. It contains quality of care information on over 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in the country.
Based on action taken by the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Board of Directors during a special conference call meeting on Dec. 9, OHSAA non-public schools will now have another option available to select their “designated” feeder schools for Competitive Balance rostering purposes.
The new option – specific to the Tier 1 factor in Competitive Balance – will permit non-public schools to utilize all elementary schools of the same system of education that are physically located within a 12.5-mile radius of the high school as designated feeder schools.
By Sarah Weihrauch, physician assistant Blanchard Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology
Urinary incontinence (UI), the loss of bladder control, is a common and often embarrassing problem. An estimated 15 million adult women in the U.S. are affected by urinary incontinence.
There are different types of urinary incontinence, including stress incontinence, overflow incontinence, urge incontinence or the most common type, mixed incontinence, which is a combination of all types.
