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Drug Side Effects

What Drug Reps Aren't Telling Doctors

Posted 04.11.2013 | Healthy Living

By Amir Khan Drug company reps provide little or no information about harmful side effects of the medications they are selling when they visit ...

Is it Drugs Not Guns that Cause Violence?

Hyla Cass, M.D. | Posted 04.21.2013 | Healthy Living
Hyla Cass, M.D.

Many legal cases, with closed books due to settlement, document cases of suicides and homicides in individuals who had not been violent prior to taking medication, and often they were newly prescribed or on an increased dose.

Chinese Girl Grows Beard Due To Life-Saving Bone Marrow Treatment

Posted 10.22.2012 | World

A young girl from China has become a lonely recluse after she developed hirsutism following a life-saving bone marrow transplant and drug treatment, r...

What Are Those Prescription Drugs Doing in Your Body, Anyway?

Amy M. FitzPatrick, MS, L.Ac. | Posted 12.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Amy M. FitzPatrick, MS, L.Ac.

If you do need to take prescription meds, understand as much as you can about them before you ingest them.

When Is More Not Always Better? Advances in Science That Raise Important Questions

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

While advances in science no doubt help us in countless ways, and in no way am I suggesting we impede the development of medicines that improve the quality of our lives, we need to keep a watchful eye on the cultural pressures some unwittingly create.

Psychiatry: Start Listening to Your Patients and Their Families

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Peter Breggin

On the face of it, medication compliance makes sense. Patients should take their medications as instructed and families should ensure that they do. But is it that simple?

The Litigators Is the Return of the Old Grisham

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 01.10.2012 | Books
Jackie K. Cooper

The Litigators takes us back to the Grisham of old. It is a legal thriller that entertains and amuses. Grisham is not known for being a writer of humor but some scenes in The Litigators are laugh out loud hilarious.

What Patients Can Do To Avoid Medication Errors

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 08.26.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Cindy Haines

Unfortunately, too-few experts offer the following advice: People can -- and should -- simply reduce the number of medications they need.

FDA Approves Drug For Multiple Sclerosis

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have approved the first pill to treat the underlying causes of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating nervous...

The Anthrax Perpetrator and the Arkansas Shooter Were Taking Antidepressants

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Peter Breggin

It was recently disclosed that two murderers, one extremely notorious, were probably taking antidepressants at the time of their crimes, but hardly an...