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It's easy to forget to take your prescribed medications. With ActiveRx, the electronic pillbox from Boost, it's easy to remember. With ActiveRx you can set reminders for yourself or other family members. You can also communicate with your health care providers. Adhering to your medication regimen is easy with ActiveRx.
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If you are one of 15 million people suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, SleepSound can help you assess your sleep patterns. Using our new mobile app screening tool, you'll be able to better understand how you sleep and if you need a professional sleep evaluation. Stop snoring and start sleeping!
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Using a band-aid sized sensor attached to your body, your doctor can remotely monitor your heart rate, respiration, EKG and body position day or night. With Body Guardian, the latest tool from Boost, you can rest assured that your health is in good hands no matter where you are living.
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When parents have to worry about sun protection, it’s no day at the beach. COPPERTONE® MyUVAlert™ to the rescue! This handy iPhone application helps you with sun protection information for your whole family, offering local UV index forecasts, custom sunscreen reapplication reminders that you set, individualized product recommendations, coupons, sun protection tips and more.
The COPPERTONE® MyUV Alert™ App offers:
- Custom reapplication reminders, which even allow for more frequent reminders when swimming or sweating. You can set reminders that work for you and your family, based on activity or personal preferences. Customize with choice of sounds.
- Sunscreen product profiles and recommendations tailored to each family member. You can even generate a recommendation list for the whole family at once, making shopping simple!
- Local UV index and weather forecasts, so preparing for your vacation (or staycation) becomes a breeze.
- Sun protection tips from the COPPERTONE® Solar Research Center.
- Valuable coupons for your favorite COPPERTONE® products.
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Suffer from migraine? You are not alone. Approximately 28 million people in the United States suffer from migraine attacks.
Migraine attacks can last hours or days and are commonly accompanied by throbbing headache pain, nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and other symptoms.
Each person’s experience with migraine may be different — but understanding your personal experience with it (including potential triggers and symptoms) — may help you to better manage it.
iManage Migraine provides a comprehensive suite of educational tools, real-time tracking, and analytic capabilities to enable you to better understand and manage your personal migraine experience.
iManage Migraine includes:
Migraine Management Square — an interactive learning experience that will help you:
- Understand what migraine is
- Identify potential migraine triggers and symptoms
- Understand types of migraine treatment options
- Work with your health care provider to create an action plan to help manage your personal experience with migraine
Migraine Journal — a tool that enables you to track:
- Symptoms and potential triggers
- Information about pain intensity and location
- Potential triggers
- Treatment used
- Notes about your day that you can review with your health care provider
Analysis — graphs to help you and your health care provider better understand and use the information entered in your Migraine Journal over a 30-, 60- and 90-day time period.
iManage Migraine tools can be used in your discussions with your health care provider to enable you both to work together toward reaching an effective action plan for managing your migraine.
The iManage Migraine may be used without entering any information that directly identifies you. Information that you record in iManage Migraine is stored on your iPhone or iPod touch. If you choose to record your full name or other information that directly identifies you, we recommend that you use the iPhone lock feature on your device, to protect the personal information. Merck & Co., Inc. does not collect personal information about you when you use the iManage Migraine. For more information about our privacy practices, please see our privacy commitment at http://www.merck.com/policy/commitment/home.html, as well as the Application License Agreement/Terms and Conditions.
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Have you recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and feeling overwhelmed, confused, or uncertain about what to do next? Or, are you already living with type 2 diabetes and looking for a way to track your progress and make healthier decisions throughout your day? Taking an active role in managing your disease can put you on the road to better health. Vree™ for Diabetes provides you with helpful tools in one easy-to-access location. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have lived with diabetes for many years, Vree for Diabetes can be your portable resource for just-in-time information and health monitoring.
Changing behavior is not always easy. Vree for Diabetes provides practical guidance and easy-to-use tools to enable you to start making important changes. You’ll learn why the benefits of managing your diabetes outweigh the barriers and help develop confidence in your ability to make healthy, lasting changes.
To manage your type 2 diabetes, you may have been told by your health care professionals that you need to lower your blood glucose (sugar), blood pressure, and/or cholesterol levels through healthy, balanced meals; exercise; and, possibly, medication. You may also need to lose some weight. Vree for Diabetes provides a comprehensive suite of integrated tools coupled with sophisticated tracking capabilities to help you work with your health care professionals to manage your diabetes.
FEATURES of Vree for Diabetes include:
- Diabetes Education – Understand type 2 diabetes and the steps you can take to manage it through a series of comprehensive, interactive lessons. Topics include blood glucose monitoring, healthy eating, weight loss, and exercise.
- Blood Glucose Tracking – Receive reminders for checking your blood glucose levels as well as reports on your progress.
- Nutrition Tracking – Make informed meal choices and count calories and carbohydrates with confidence. Vree for Diabetes calculates the nutritional information for any food item that you select. The optional meal reminder prompts you to eat your meals at regular times and records when and which foods you eat. You can work with your health care professionals to set daily caloric intake goals and monitor your progress at each meal to stay on track.
- Activity Tracking – Record your physical activity and consider some simple ways that you can become more active. Set reminders and track your progress!
- Medication Tracking – Identify the medications you are taking, set reminders, and record when you take your medications.
- Progress Charts – Easily track and evaluate your progress. Review the reports with your health care professionals to determine how to best manage your type 2 diabetes over time.