Documents tagged 'Drugs'
Published: 19/07/2008
When you ask what arthritis is, professinals will tell you it’s inflammation of one or more joints. But you know it better as pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, and/or a diminished range of motion of those joints! It’s estimated that over 50 million Americans suffer from...
Published: 19/07/2008
My mother-in-law, a widow of a doctor, recently died. The way she exited was a nightmare. This was because her health strategy produced a lousy result.
Shortly before passing away, she had a colostomy to fix an intestinal blockage, the result of a decades-long struggle with...
Published: 19/07/2008
Is there an alternative to statin drugs such as Lipitor and Pravachol? If yes, does it have any side effects? Physicians are facing these questions each day however, most have bought into the drug companies marketing, and have not done the research for themselves. The truth is that there a...
Published: 19/07/2008
This must be a mistake! How could his drug costs rise from $150 a month to $1101 in just three weeks? My hands shook while I read the pharmacy bill.
There was no mistake. The bill I held recorded the drugs ordered by my fathers Alzheimers’ care unit. In only three weeks at this...
Published: 19/07/2008
Results of a new study comparing the effectiveness of Pfizer Inc.,s Lipitor with Pravachol, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, was recently published in the New York Times. The study details the clinical observation that Lipitor was significantly more effective than Pravachol in lowering...
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-Your liver works 24 hours a day, performing over 500 vital functions for your body. Most of the blood that returns to your heart passes through the liver. Your body can’t function without it.
The hepatitis C virus lives in your liver. It inflames liver cells, which, over time,...
Published: 19/07/2008
Anyone who’s been to the pharmacy to fill a prescription lately is well aware that prices on prescription drugs have gone through the stratosphere. But there are steps you can take immediately to reduce your expenses in this area. Moreover, there are long-term actions you can take to...
Published: 19/07/2008
(ARA) - One of the most exciting developments in modern medicine has been the discovery that cancerous tumors have the potential of being "starved" out of existence, or at least into dormancy. Scientists, doctors and, of course, patients, are all anticipating the prospect that cancer...
Published: 19/07/2008
A prescription drug for yeast infection is needed to finally kill the fungus causing the infection. When a straight couple has unprotected sexual intercourse and the female is suffering from yeast infection in her vagina, her partner may get a penile infection as well. This may develop into a...
Published: 18/07/2008
On the surface, it does not seem as though the problem of club and prescription drug abuse in Minnesota is that prevalent; at least, it does not seem as high as that of mainstream recreational drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and heroin. But there is indeed a strong undercurrent of this...
