Who expects to pay more than a thousand dollars for medicine to treat toenail fungus?
Certainly not Anne Soloviev, a retiree in Washington, D.C.
During a semiannual dermatology appointment, she was prescribed Kerydin, a liquid, to treat a case of toenail fungus she hadn’t even noticed she had.
“I did not ask how much it cost — it never crossed my mind, ever,” Soloviev told Shefali Luthra, a reporter for our partner Kaiser Health News.
Soloviev only learned how much the fungus remedy cost when she tried to fill a prescription for a cholesterol drug. Her health reimbursement account had been emptied.
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The heart is a little like a rubber band.
In the beginning, the rubber is flexible and pliable. But over time, it becomes dry and brittle.
As we humans grow older, our hearts become stiffer. A stiffer heart is less efficient at pumping blood.
The first signs of cardiac stiffness tend to show up when we hit our 50s or early 60s
But new research finds that people who exercise in middle age can head off the decline and help restore aging hearts, NPR’s Patti Neighmond reports.
"We took these 50-year-old hearts and turned the clock back to 30- or 35-year-old hearts," says Dr. Ben Levine, a sports cardiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center who worked on the exercise study.
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The Food and Drug Administration wants to move ahead with restrictions on the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.
The agency’s goal is to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to the point that they are barely addictive or not addictive at all, NPR’s Rob Stein reports.
The change could help wean millions of smokers off their deadly habit and prevent millions more from becoming regular smokers of cigarettes in the first place.
If you've got 'em, don't smoke 'em.
Your Shots editor, Scott Hensley
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