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Dear Pharmacist,I take medications for blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis, five drugs in all. My doctor is happy with my progress but my wife is urging me to take fish oils to lower my blood pressure. I am not a vitamin type of person, but I don’t like some of the side effects I’m experiencing on the medications. What should I do? --G.S. Tampa, FloridaDear G.S.,Stay on your medications...

There are detours and pitfalls in life. From the day we are born until the day we die, life is a gamble. How long the road is from birth to death to a significant degree depends on the roll of the dice. Part of the problem is when you lose on your parent's roll; you don't necessarily pay then and there. Sometimes that losing roll is the genes you inherit when you are conceived. For many of...

I recently attended a family reunion in South Georgia, my mother’s family homestead. (Homestead is a bit of an overstatement.) My mother’s paternal grandmother extracted her from this tiny town when she was eight, taking her to live in Orlando. I, nor others in my family, ever learned why she left, a mystery which will remain unsolved since my Mom died almost 30 years ago. My...