Pharmaceuticals
Warning: Proton Pump Inhibitors Increase Risk of Heart Attack
A new study has found a significant correlation between the use of gastric reflux preventive drugs and an increased risk of heart attack. The study analyzed the use of the drugs in healthy people and looked at a sample of more than million users of the dru...
Victims Claim Zoloft’s Birth Defects Were Hidden By Pfizer
Pfizer's own researchers observed that pregnant women taking Zoloft could be susceptible to giving birth to babies with birth defects, yet that information was not made public. At least that is what is being contended in court as the makers of Zoloft face ...
DEA approves MDMA (Ecstasy) study
For many years, psychotherapy has been used to treat anxiety in people suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Now, it has a new partner in that fight: MDMA. A new trial in Marin, California, approved by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has both...
Generic drug safety concerns
A quirk in drug law mandates that the warning label on generic drugs must follow that of their brand-name counterpart. So what happens when the brand name prescription becomes less popular and loses interest in updating their warning? Still popular generic...
Heroin Use Rises in Individuals Abusing Painkillers
Health professionals have historically warned that the recreational use of pharmaceuticals can lead to more serious drug addiction. Recently, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health released a study that confirms the link between opiate abuse and...
ADHD America: Making childhood a disease
How has America come to the point where normal childhood behavior has been reclassified as a disease?
That is a question Marilyn Wedge, an ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) expert answers in Time magazine. Here are excerpts from her article:
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The Marijuana Military: Is weed the answer for PTSD?
Prescription drugs not working
Veterans coming back home from war have been prescribed a cocktail of prescription drugs to treat their PTSD. Many, unfortunately, have found prescription treatment to be unsuccessful. Of those veterans, some have taken their ...
FDA Orders Bayer to Issue Stronger Warnings as Yasmin Lawsuits Increase
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Bayer AG to strengthen the blood-clot warnings on products such as Yasmin, which contains a synthetic hormone called drospirenone that has been found to triple the risk for blood clots.Bayer has paid over $4...
Obama’s New Budget Aims to Make Biotech Treatments More Affordable
The Obama administration recently revealed its new $3.99 trillion budget for 2016. It announced its plans to negotiate prices for costly drugs and biotechnology treatments under the Medicare Part D program, which offers private coverage for senior citizens...
Medication Causes… Pneumonia?
Imagine the very medicine that is meant to maintain and restore health by preventing certain illnesses is found to do the exact opposite? Well, a recent study released by the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle has found just that."Our study is ...