• This new number can be used anywhere nationwide to call the nearest poison control center...similar to dialing 911 for emergencies.

• Pressure, aching or burning--not necessarily pain--in the chest.  Often it increases with activity and subsides with rest.
• Discomfort, tightness, squeezing or fullness in the chest, usually lasting longer than two minutes.  Mild discomfort that may come back sooner, last longer or feel more severe each time.
• Discomfort in the teeth, jaw, inner arm (often the left) or back.
• Dizziness, fainting, sweating, nausea, shortness of breath or weakness.

WARNING SIGNS OF A STROKE
" a stroke strikes every minute in America"

If you experience one or more of the following symptoms, get to an emergency room as soon as possible. You may be having a stroke. If you can get to the hospital within 3 hours, you can be treated with clot-busting drugs such as tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which improve your chance of making a full recovery.

• sudden, unexplained weakness or numbness on one side of the body, possibly confined to one limb or one side of your face.
• sudden loss of vision or dimness, particularly in just one eye
• trouble speaking, slurred speech, trouble understanding someone else's speech
• sudden, severe headache with no apparent cause
• dizziness, sudden falls (in particular when they occur with any of the other symptoms)

It has been often said that the widespread use of vitamin and mineral supplements could considerably reduce our country's monumental health-care expenditures. In the Western Journal of Medicine, A. Bendich, et al., calculated the potential savings from taking supplements for three high risk conditions. They studied the use of folic acid and birth defects; multivitamins and minerals and low birth-weight infants; and vitamin E and coronary heart disease. After analyzing the data, the research team concluded that hospital costs relating to these three conditions would be reduced by about $20 billion annually.