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(AP) KEY LARGO, Fla. It's not often you save several hundred dollars on medicine by surfing the Web, but David Melvin did, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. "Tremendous savings," he says. Melvin was on the Consumer Reports' Best Buy Drugs site and saw that his cholesterol medicine, Pravachol, was three times more expensive than a plain generic, Lovastatin, a drug the Web site was calling its "best buy." "When I saw the difference in pricing and what I could save, an "oh my God' is right," Melvin says. He also saw that Nexium, the hugely popular prescription drug he was taking for acid reflux, was not the best buy it was Prilosec OTC, sold over the counter. His doctor agreed to the changes, and when Melvin added his savings last year, it was more than $600 on two drugs. "I can have the same kind of effectiveness for a heck of a lot less money," Melvin says.
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According to the British medical journal The Lancet, heartburn is pretty common. In fact, 25 percent of Americans report experiencing heartburn at least once a month, 12 percent at least once per week and 5 percent daily. So what is heartburn? And what about gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)? Here's a guide to provide a bit more understanding of that burning sensation in your chest. Why is it called heartburn? "Heartburn is often sensed as a burning feeling behind the middle of the lower to middle of the chest, giving the sense that it may be coming from the heart," says Dr. Philip Jaffe, an associate professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. What is happening, biologically speaking? According to Dr.
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Opting for poor lifestyles, Mumbai lies low by impotence
Impotence is on the rise in Mumbai, ignited by the pressures of urban existence and poor lifestyle choices. Sanghamitra Bhowmik reports on the toll every mans nightmare is taking, and how those affected are coping Thirty-something Vinod and Nisha Sharma have everything going for them: well-paying jobs, a brand new home, friends to party with. But when night falls and the time arrives to get into bed, they are consumed by worry and despair. It has been months since the Sharmas have had sex. The reason: Vinod is battling impotence, or to be medically precise erectile dysfunction. It was over a year ago that Vinod heard the diagnosis. He was shocked. I thought impotence affected only old people, he says. I kept thinking, How could I get it? Vinod has plenty of company.
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