Gifts that help your hands

Whether you have arthritis, have overused your hands or have another hand or upper body condition, daily tasks may be slower and more difficult. Stiffness, pain and numbness often increase with the weather and seasonal tasks like snow shoveling or even wrapping packages. Rather than giving the same old gifts, there are many simple and inexpensive gifts that will be used and remembered throughout the year.

Gilead's $2,340 price for coronavirus drug draws criticism

The maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill COVID-19 patients says it will charge $2,340 for a typical treatment course for people covered by government health programs in the United States and other developed countries

Obama orders FDA to reduce drug shortages

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages, action he says will help stop a "slow-rolling problem" that puts patients at risk and raises the potential for price gouging.

Can aspirin stop cancer's spread?

If aspirin's health benefits were limited to reducing inflammation, alleviating pain, and promoting heart health, it would be quite enough. However, researchers are continuing to find new ways that this common drug improves health and combats disease. The latest findings provide an answer to how aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs are able to help inhibit the spread of cancer. New research shows that aspirin's cancer-inhibiting effect may be traced to its ability to shut down the chemical "highways" that feed cancer cells. It seems that aspirin is able to reduce the dilation of vessels that feed tumors throughout the body. Once these "supply lines" are restricted, cancer growth slows. Once more, aspirin proves itself to be a "miracle drug."

Expanded use of prostrate cancer drug

The FDA recently approved the expanded use of a drug that was initially approved to treat prostate cancer patients whose disease had progressed after treatment with the chemotherapy drug docetaxel. Now, Zytiga can also be used to treat men with late-stage, hormone therapy-resistant prostate cancer before they undergo chemotherapy. Zytiga works by decreasing production of the male sex hormone testosterone, which stimulates the growth of prostate tumors. The approval of this expanded use of Zytiga was made under the FDA's priority review program, which provides an accelerated six-month review for medications that may present major advances in treatment or provide a treatment when adequate therapy is not available for the treatment of disease.

Amazon vs. everyone else

Battle for holiday shoppers heats up

NEW YORK - This holiday shopping season, it's Amazon vs. everyone else.

Entertainment Calendar

"Wit!:" 7:30 p.m. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A renowned professor of English has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness, Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and humor. Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E. Garden Ave., Coeur d'Alene. $11-$17. Buy online: www.lakecityplayhouse.org or call: (208) 667-1323.

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Arthritis: Not so cut and dry

Whenever I get ready to teach a class, and write the article, such as this one, that generally precedes it, I stick my research hat back on and see what has changed in our understanding of the topic at hand.

The cart before the horse?

Movie studios' view-everywhere system has soft launch

Arts and entertainment happenings

Night life and cultural events in and around Kootenai County

Music Walk: 5-8 p.m., every fourth Friday, downtown Coeur d'Alene; live music performances from local favorites; follow the red balloons for participating venues. Free

Controlled hunt drawing results online

Hunters who applied for elk, deer, pronghorn, fall turkey and black bear controlled hunts can check online to see whether they were successful in the recent computerized drawing.

Swollen knees, swollen bills

It took a long time for this mother of two to get an official diagnosis for her toddler. In the meantime, all she could do was worry a lot and watch her child suffer.

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — How to fight fatigue and boost your energy levels

To be able to fight fatigue and boost your energy levels, you have to know WHY you are fatigued in the first place.

No over-the-counter, nonresident deer, elk tags available this year

No over-the-counter nonresident deer, elk tags available this year Controlled hunt tags must be purchased this week or forfeited

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JUDD JONES: Hot Stuff!

Ok, if you are like me, you love fresh jalapeños, habaneros, thai peppers and some of you may even dive into the smoking hot flames of the Carolina Reaper or Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers.

Acupuncture for arthritis

Arthritis is one of the most pervasive diseases in the United States, and the leading cause of disability. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every three Americans is affected. Most people over the age of 50 show some signs of arthritis. Fortunately, arthritis can often be managed with acupuncture.

Treating autoimmune conditions

Chances are, you or someone you know or love are one of the many millions of people with an autoimmune condition. Autoimmunity is an "attack on self," where a person's immune system makes antibodies to and destroys their own tissues. Autoimmune conditions (such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves Disease, and multiple sclerosis, to mention just a few) are the third most common type of disease in the U.S., after cancer and heart disease. They can involve almost any part of the body, including brain, nerves, muscles, digestive system, kidneys, thyroid, heart, and skin.

Chiropractic and arthritis

Arthritis is basically defined as swelling in the joint. At this point, over one hundred different types of arthritis have been identified. Primary arthritis is defined as arthritis without an identified cause, while other forms of arthritis are secondary to a disease or other condition.

Arthritis pain and what chiropractic can do