Archive for the 'Drugs' Category

Turmeric TKOs Motrin

When my arthritis flares up my shoulders, back, hips and knees ache. But for the most part, since I have discovered turmeric, I am pain free. While doing research for my article Spice Your Way to a Healthier Life I discovered the wonderful anti-inflammatory properties of Turmeric. At that moment I w…

Five Drugs Your Teenagers are Likely to Abuse: How to Identify Them and What to Do About Them

As a youth counselor, I have many years of education, training and experience when it comes to working with adolescents. I’ve worked with kids with nearly every problem imaginable. The number of kids using drugs these days is alarming. whether you have a teenager, chances are your kid will have the …

The Prescription Lie

Prescription medications are fast fitting an epidemic among American teenagers, and unsuspecting adults. The drugs have the lure of legitimacy considering they are legal and can be obtained from a medical doctor. The user may innocently start his addiction by taking the pills as prescribed, or just …

Recent Vytorin Drug Study Opens Floodgate of Lawsuits

The average person has most likely knows of the drug Vytorin considering of the continual television ads we see each day. According to a Jan. 29, 2008 report in the National Law Journal, lawsuits are being filed against drug manufacturer Merck & Co., the creators of Vytorin, “faster than any o…

OTC pain relievers are often misused

Over-the-counter (OTC) pain medications are sometimes used rather judiciously by folks, to the point where they’re popping Tylenol or Advil every duration they stub their toe. Think I’m exaggerating? possibly a little, but not totally.

A survey conducted by the American College of Emergency Physi…

Drug companies withheld results of anti-depressant studies

There is an unbelievable story in The New York Times nowadays about the pharmaceutical industry. It appears that the companies marketing drugs like Prozac and Paxil have been lax in reporting results of studies of their anti-depressant drugs.

NYTimes.com is reporting that one-third of all studies…

Statin drugs found to help prevent cancer in addition to lowering cholesterol

Statin drugs are normally associated with lowering high levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol (the HDL kind). U.S. researchers said that week that statins may additionally be helpful to the prevention of cancer.

In fact, the risk of developing cancer decreases by 25% in those veteran user of statin dru…

Mixing medications? What to know

If you’re on any type of daily or regular medication, soon after it’s in your best interest to take a look at this article from MSNBC. Whenever you have to take more than one kind of medication, you run the risk of them interacting. Side effects can range from dangerous to simply rendering one of th…

Merck (MRK) issues recall for childhood vaccines

Drug maker Merck & Co. (NYSE : MRK) announced yesterday that it had recalled slightly by one million doses [subscription required] of its childhood vaccine Hib.

For parents out there, that recall, at that instance, appears to be more proactive than anything else. According to Merck, the c…

Merck’s Mevacor cholesterol drug to go by the counter soon?

It’s interesting to see that Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, wants to construct its Mevacor cholesterol-lowering drug available as an over-the-counter drug, but that is precisely what is happening.

However, the FDA wonders whether making the drug available to anyone who wants it will lead to man…

Dealing with Medications


Dosing Consideration
One must be very careful when it comes to prescription dosing. It is fairly easy to manufacture a mistake due to the way the prescription was written or the knowledge on medication vials. When one is uncertain to what amount should be given it does not hurt to ask someone els…

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