Medication

Gardasil or Guard Your Girls?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Vaccine, Medication, Health Care, Prevention, Gardasil, Living News

The vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, was mandated for all young girls in Texas in 2006 and there were proposals for mand...

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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Drugs, Cigarettes, Smoking, Medication, Health Care, Chantix, Living News

The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

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Should I Give My Wife a Statin?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Zocor, Drugs, Pravachol, Medication, Lipitor, Statins, Living News

You may have read that heart disease is under diagnosed in women, and that they are missing potential treatments that could save their lives.

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Mommy, Can I Have a Yummy Blue Pill?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Pills, Drugs, Doctors, Medication, Pharmaceuticals, Placebo, Drug, Healthcare, Living News

Jennifer Buettner started Efficacy Brands to sell placebo pills marketed specifically for children. She calls them Obecalb -- "placebo" spelled backwards.

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Is Your Birth Control Pill Driving You Bananas?

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Contraception, Ocp, Birth Control Pills, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Anxiety, Yasmin, Living News

A collective howl is going up amongst women over at medications.com over the birth control pill, Yasmin.

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Online Therapy: The Next Frontier

The Times | Peta Bee | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Depression Benefits, Do Antidepressants Work, Paroxetine, Online Therapy Effectiveness, Prozac, Effexor, Antidepressant Effectiveness, Bristol-Myers Squibb Serzone, Eli Lily Prozac, University of Hull Study, Sex and Antidepressants, University of Hull Research, Seroxat, Depression Medication, Antidepressants, GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, Prozac Doesn't Work, Prozac Effectiveness, Sex Drive Antidepressants, Depression Medication Sex, Wyeth Effexor, Online Therapy, Medication, Ssris, Serzone, Living News

A growing body of research has found that when - and this is crucial - it is carried out responsibly, and kept specific, online therapy is one of the ...

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Do Antidepressants Actually Work? Research Says Probably Not

Reuters | Will Dunham and Julie Steenhuysen | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living

British researchers have released a report that claims that antidepressants, for the most part, are ineffective. The researchers found that compared ...

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Overmedication Nation

The New York Times | Judith Warner | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Overmedication, Overmedication and Mental Illness, Medication, Living News

This storyline persists despite the fact that government research has repeatedly shown that most adults and children with mental health issues don't g...

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Wake Up and Smell the Sugar Pill -- or Don't and Let It Work!

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 01.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Medication, Benadryl, Medicine, Sleep Disorder, Placebo Effect, Living News

Here's a little secret that millions probably don't realize: Benadryl works by virtue of its placebo effect. That's right: it's all in your head so to speak.

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