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What diseases and medications are incompatible with paracetamol?

What diseases and medications are incompatible with paracetamol?

24 Jun 2019 • 15 comments

Paracetamol is a widely used drug. Used under normal conditions, it is safe and effective, but do you know the drug interactions and diseases for which it can be harmful? Read our guide to learn...

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Assisted Dying: What Patients and Their Families Really Want

Assisted Dying: What Patients and Their Families Really Want

21 Aug 2019 • 20 comments

More than 3,000 members answered our survey on assisted dying! Read the results and compare your point of view with that of other...

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Depression diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Depression diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

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Epileptic seizures: recognising the symptoms and how to help

Epileptic seizures: recognising the symptoms and how to help

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Diabetes : understanding the low glycaemic diet

Diabetes : understanding the low glycaemic diet

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Medication, treatments, and exercise : treatments for emphysema and COPD

Medication, treatments, and exercise : treatments for emphysema and COPD

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Lupus diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Lupus

Lupus diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

24 Jan 2020

On average, it took at 3 years for members living with lupus to get diagnosed. Read their stories and leave your own in the comments below!...

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH
Obesity

NASH, or "fatty liver disease": understanding treatments

24 Jan 2020

There's no one known cure for NASH. However, treatments do exist to live better despite a non-alcoholic steatohepatitis diagnosis....

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How to keep tabs on cardiovascular disease?

Cardiovascular diseases

How to keep tabs on cardiovascular disease?

21 Jan 2020 • 5 comments

Blood work, regular tests, discover what to look out for when it comes to cardiovascular diseases....

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Psoriatic arthritis diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Psoriatic arthritis

Psoriatic arthritis diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

21 Jan 2020 • 1 comment

50% of responding members said they were "determined to fight the disease" after they received their psoriatic arthritis diagnosis. Read more about Carenity members' experiences with their psoriatic...

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What is biological therapy? Asthma special

Asthma

What is biological therapy? Asthma special

20 Jan 2020

In some cases, asthmatic patients may be prescribed biological treatments: Read our guide to learn more about these innovative treatments....

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Expert Interview: Travelling with a handicap made easier with a travel companion

Expert Interview: Travelling with a handicap made easier with a travel companion

17 Jan 2020

Pascale Crahay works as a travel companion for handicapped patients, allowing them to travel without always having to ask for assistance from strangers. Independence, complicity, costs. Learn more in...

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The symptoms of ulcerative colitis, before and after diagnosis

Ulcerative colitis

The symptoms of ulcerative colitis, before and after diagnosis

16 Jan 2020

"The most difficult thing for me to deal with is the unpredictable nature of the illness and the urge to run to the toilet."...

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Breast Cancer diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Breast cancer

Breast Cancer diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

15 Jan 2020

33% of responding members said they were "horrified" when they received their breast cancer diagnosis. Read more about Carenity members' experiences with their breast cancer diagnosis and share your...

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Medication, treatments, and exercise : treatments for emphysema and COPD

COPD
Emphysema

Medication, treatments, and exercise : treatments for emphysema and COPD

13 Jan 2020 • 1 comment

Respiratory rehabilitation, medication, surgery… Discover the experience of a Carenity member living with COPD and emphysema....

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What medications should be banned in 2020?

What medications should be banned in 2020?

10 Jan 2020 • 3 comments

The French magazine Prescrire made a list of 100 medications said to be more dangerous than beneficial for patients. Read on to learn more!...

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Joie de vivre despite Parkinson’s : personal challenges, hypnosis and treatment

Parkinson's disease

Joie de vivre despite Parkinson’s : personal challenges, hypnosis and treatment

10 Jan 2020

With her family’s support and aided by natural medicine and her treatments, Dominique prefers to stay optimistic and positive despite having Parkinson’s disease....

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MS and medical cannabis: Legal status and usage in France and Spain

Multiple sclerosis

MS and medical cannabis: Legal status and usage in France and Spain

8 Jan 2020

A Carenity study compared medical cannabis consumption habits of patients living with MS in France and Spain. What are its effects on symptoms? How often do patients take it and how? Read our study!...

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