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Your lips, nails, hair, and skin have a big impact on your sense of well-being.

How can you overcome fragile nails and chapped lips? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.

Nails don't usually get a lot of respect. Compared to heart disease or diabetes,

chipped or splitting nails just don't seem all that urgent.

Still, nail problems can be incredibly bothersome.

Is there anything that can be done to get rid of nail fungus

or take care of ridges and splits?

Have you ever had painful cracks at the corners of your mouth?

Doctors call that angular keylytus. What can you do to heal this uncomfortable

condition? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, solutions for dandruff, dermatitis, chap lips, and nail fungus.

First the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Stapin drugs that lower cholesterol are among the most important tools

cardiologists have for preventing heart disease among middle-aged patients.

Until recently, however, no one knew whether drugs such as a torvostatin or simvestatin would benefit healthy older adults.

A study published in the BMJ examined the health records of

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