2026 Health Awareness Calendar
The 2026 Health Awareness Calendar highlights key health days and campaigns throughout the year, helping you stay informed and proactive about your health.
Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials
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Doctor Booklet: Deprescribing
Deprescribing is a systematic process of identifying and discontinuing any inappropriate or unnecessary medications to improve patient well-being.
Knowing Your Numbers
By knowing these numbers and regularly monitoring them, one can proactively identify and better manage most of the deadlier modern-day illnesses.
Deprescribing
Reducing Medication to Stay Safe. As life changes, our medication needs change. The process of re-evaluating and safely removing medication is no longer for us is known as “Deprescribing”.
10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day
An estimated 703,000 people a year take their life around the world. For every suicide, there are likely 20 other people making a suicide attempt and many more have serious thoughts of suicide.
Understanding and Addressing Polypharmacy
This is not a new observation. For years physicians and medical experts have been alerting us of the dangers of polypharmacy, which is typically defined as the use of five or more medications.
Deprescribing: Reducing Medications Safely
As life changes, your medication needs may change as well. Medications that were once good for you many not be the best choice now.
Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI)
If unsure, find out if history of endoscopy, if ever hospitalized for bleeding ulcer or if taking because of chronic NSAID use in past, if ever had heartburn or dyspepsia.
Lupus and Other Auto-Immune Conditions
Living with a chronic illness can be challenging, especially when symptoms are difficult to recognise. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, causing inflammation and damage.
Women's Health: Know Your Benefits, Know Your Rights
As Women’s Month comes to a close, the CMS continues to encourage informed healthcare decisions by raising awareness of women’s health issues across every stage of life.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormone-related condition that often affects women of reproductive age and can cause problems with both metabolism and fertility.
Understanding your pregnancy benefits
Pregnancy is an exciting journey, but it can also feel confusing when trying to understand what your medical scheme covers. Many people assume that all pregnancy care is automatically a Prescribed Minimum Benefit (PMB), but this is not the case.
Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is a growing global health concern. By 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people may experience some degree of hearing loss. Young people are also increasingly at risk, particularly from prolonged exposure to loud music and unsafe listening habits.
Lupus & Other Auto-Immune Conditions
Autoimmune conditions are complex, lifelong illnesses
that can affect many parts of the body and may sometimes be difficult to diagnose. One of the
better-known autoimmune diseases is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), commonly called lupus.