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When to Throw absent Medications

Has it been a while since you cleaned out your medicine cabinet? Most experts recommend that your medicine cabinet be cleaned out at least every six months to discard medications that have expired or could be medically unsafe. You may be confused as to when to throw absent medicines and which ones s…

Let Food be Thy Medicine

Said the great Hippocrates, the father of medicine, more than 2,400 years ago; today’s doctors and thousands of scientific studies, say he was right!

I’ve found some more wonderful ways food can help heal our bodies and I’m sharing them with you!

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that can cause excruciating pain in yo…

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 …

Don’t delay — toss your expired medications

I have a bucket of drugs in one of my kitchen cabinets, stored way up high and out of the reach of two engaged little boys. For a short duration during my breast cancer treatment I reached for that container every day. Lately, though, I have little use for that medley of medication. There are so…

The majority of doctors won’t prescribe Avandia

Diabetes drug Avandia has been raising a lot of controversy in the past few months considering it’s been linked to a high risk of heart attacks. And although the FDA has decided it will stay on the market, the FDA has made an official acknowledgment that the drug might cause a heart attack.

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More insulin antibodies in inhaled insulin

Pfizer’s bandwagon might be busted! Turns-out a study says inhaled human insulin, whether formulated as a powder or liquid, is increasingly immunogenic than injected insulin.

Adverse effects of antibody formation have not been thoroughly investigated. But it was shown, comparatively, that inhaled…

Complicated gene can aggravate diabetes

I don’t know approximately you, but I find it disconcerting to read approximately new scientific discoveries that mystify even the experts. Scientists go out. They do research. They come back and tell us what they find. Usually, they come back with some explanation for how the world works. But…

Doctors refine heart attack guidelines

The American Heart organization and American College of Cardiology recently refined treatment guidelines for patients who present with chest pain or who suffer a heart attack. The new guidelines clarify treatments for high risk and low risk patients and bring attention to the fact that low-ri…

Avandia lesson: diabetes drug OK should be approximately increasingly than blood sugar

The chairman of the FDA advisory panel that reviewed the safety of rosiglitazone (Avandia) final week believes the date has come to abandon “surrogate endpoints” for approval of type 2 diabetes drugs, according to a report at www.medpagetoday.com.

Huh?OK. English. Basically, the FDA currently…

Avandia lesson: drug approval should be approximately increasingly than blood sugar

The chairman of the FDA advisory panel that reviewed the safety of rosiglitazone (Avandia) final week believes the date has come to abandon “surrogate endpoints” for approval of type 2 diabetes drugs, according to a report at www.medpagetoday.com.

Huh?OK. English. Basically, the FDA currently…

Anti-diabetes drug begins Phase III trial

A new diabetes drug in the same lesson as Avandia has entered the final stage of its clinical trial, bringing it one step closer to government scrutiny in an effort to seize a chunk of the marketplace.

The final stage of analyzing for balaglitazone, known as the Phase III program, will compri…

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