Medications

More Bad News About Osteoporosis Drugs

Doug Bremner | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Fosamax, Women's Health, Prevention, Osteoporosis, Health, Drugs, Alendronate, Medications, Living News
Doug Bremner

Kudos to the New York Times for bringing up the issue and pointing out the risk of bisphosphonate drugs that are supposed to save you from fractures.

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There's No Excuse for Overmedicating the Elderly

Liz Spikol | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Elderly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Nursing Homes, Antipsychotics, New York Times, Psychology, Medications, Business News
Liz Spikol

The elderly in nursing homes have long been treated poorly, as so many guilty adult children (cf. The Savages) can attest. But because of societal p...

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Ladies, Don't Fall Into the Bone Mineral Density Osteoporosis Trap

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Bone Mineral Density Testing, Drugs, Fracture, Osteopenia, Medications, Osteoporosis, Bone Health, Health, Living News
Doug Bremner

According to the guidelines, half of postmenopausal women should be taking medication for osteoporosis. However, this may not be the best way to take care of your bones.

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Solving America's Healthcare Crisis, One State at a Time

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Drugs, Medications, Insurance, Healthcare, Georgia, Politics News
Doug Bremner

Competition and the private marketplace is not the best approach for healthcare. You just think it is because you've been listening to a bunch of fruit-loops like Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz.

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Welcome to The New World DisOrders -- They Are Legion

Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Literature, Philosophy, Economics, Children, Sociology, Disorders, Psychology, Media, Medications, Asperger's, Meds, Leukemia, Politics, Television, Environmental, Kids, Critical Theory, Geniuses, Cancer, Parents, Albert Einstein, Psychiatry, Isaac Newton, Nightly News, Mental Health, Educators, Science, School, Labels, Genius, Pharmaceutical Companies, Cnn, Education, Human Rights, Workplace, Work, Environment, Autism, Brilliant, Brilliance, News, Asperger, Autistic, Essays, Psychopharmacology, Anti-Depressants, Essay, Politics News
Carol Maric

If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.

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Does America Have a Prescription Drug Problem?

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Pharmacology, Medications, Medicine, Vioxx, Fda, America, Living News
Doug Bremner

Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here?

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That Sucking Sound May Be The Sound of the Prescription Drug Pipeline Running Dry

Doug Bremner | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Marketing, Shills, Drugs, Medications, Pharmaceuticals, Pharma, Business News
Doug Bremner

I have a secret (?) interest in drug news and the pharmaceutical industry but it seems like the only place I can get a fix for my jones outside of pha...

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Where Do They Come Up With All Those Goofy Names for Prescription Drugs Anyway?

Doug Bremner | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Asthma, Antipsychotics, Drugs, Medications, Eric Rudolph, Living News
Doug Bremner

I was spreading pine straw around the bushes in my yard in Atlanta, Georgia, when I started thinking about... you guessed it! The goofy names that drug companies come up with for their prescription drugs.

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What Was in the Water Spitzer Drank?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media

Read More: AP Report, Antidepressants, Water, Health Journalist, Investigative Journalism, Medications, Water Supply, Scandal, Hormones, Eliot Spitzer, Media News
Alison Rose Levy

Just like Eliot Spitzer, all of us have addictions to unhook from. For news junkies, the addiction to disposable news hooks, celebrity pix, or sex tea...

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