Here’s how heat can affect your medical devices and prescriptions, health officials say

Extreme heat can be taxing on the body, causing mild fatigue and headaches to severe dehydration and heat stroke.

Hot weather in Hampton Roads often sends hundreds of people to local urgent care or emergency rooms with heat-related illnesses.

What many patients don’t realize is that their medication may have played a role, said Sarah Dawson, a clinical pharmacist at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital…

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