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Are You Taking Pills You Don't Need? Ask Ghostwriters

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Ghostwriting, Healthy Living Body, Pills, Big Pharma, Medication Unnecessary, Pharmaceutical Advertising, Healthy Living News

But ghostwriting also helps the national malaise of people suffering from and treating diseases that didn't even exist before and ballooning government and private health plans costs.

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Wife Of Long Island Pharmacy Shooting Suspect: 'I'm Sorry He Did All Of This'

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 08.23.2011

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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Two years ago, they posed for a wedding photo: Him beaming broadly in a dark suit, she a pudgy fresh-faced bride. They soo...

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Park Slope Adderall Ring Busted

Gothamist | Ben Yakas in News on January 5, 2011 11:50 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Crime, Nypd, Ny News, Drugs, Pills, Prescription Pills, Drug Dealers, Brooklyn Adderall Ring, Adderall, New York News

Over the holidays, feds busted a Park Slope Adderall-trafficking ring, arresting at least one of the people who allegedly sold thousands of pills onli...

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Why It's So Hard to Find Legit Psychiatric Medications

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Prescription Pills, Pills, Mental Health, Prescription Medications, Prescription Meds, Home News

A psychiatrist prescribing medications that supposedly work, cause little or no harm, and are scientifically proven to meet at least these aforementioned three criteria, couldn't be further from simple.

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Don't Take Away Lindsay's Pills! (All at Once, That Is)

Joshua Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dilaudid, Vicodin, Jail, Pills, Lindsay Lohan, Withdrawal, Suboxone, Entertainment News

My biggest fear for Lindsay is that the drugs get taken away immediately. This is a terrible and dangerous idea. She needs to be slowly and carefully weaned off of painkillers.

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Beta Blockers: A Musician's Secret?

Minnesota Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pills, Pills Performance, Beta Blockers, Minnesota Daily, Musicianship, The Midwest, Medication, University of Minnesota, College News

One slip of the hand, one tremor, a single wrong note and the entire performance can go flat. "At the moment when the conductor looks up and you ha...

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Tylenol Recall 2009 EXPANDED, All Arthritis Pain Caplets Recalled

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Tylenol recall on arthritis caplets has just gotten larger, as Johnson & Johnson has expanded the recall to include all such products. A recall l...

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Yoga: Bye Bye Anxiety! (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Stress, Yoga, Video, Depression, The Balanced Life, Gps-Soul, Meditation, Tara Stiles, Pills, Anxiety, Breathing, Relaxation, Healthy Living News

Use what you need. Rest what you don't. That's efficiency. Think of how well we can function when we are aren't holding tension where it isn't needed.

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Barney Frank On Leno Calls Out Rush Limbaugh's Addiction To Painkillers (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a safe bet that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rush Limbaugh don't have any dinner plans. Frank called out the conservative radio host for his ...

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A Ban on Painkillers Helps No One

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Percocet, Prescription Painkillers, Dea, Prescription Drugs, Banning, Painkillers, Prescription Pills, Vicodin, Pills, Prescription Medication, Fda, Health, Healthy Living News

We can't combat painkillers like any other drug epidemic by trying to eliminate the source. The medications must remain available to people who are living with debilitating diseases.

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Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Prescription Pills, Pills, Prescription Painkillers, Healthy Living News

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

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Old Drug, New Drug . . . Red Drug, Blue Drug?

James S. Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

This letter of mine appeared in The New York Times yesterday (in somewhat shortened form), under the title, "Alternatives to New Drugs." I thought yo...

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Dueling Docs -- the Vitamin Wars

Janice Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Exercise, Women's Health Initiative, Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, Vitamins, Women's Health, Men's Health, Vitamin C, Cancer, Heart Disease, Diet, Physician's Health Study, Vitamin E, Selenium, Healthy Diet, Pills, Whole Foods, Healthy Living News

We now know that no vitamin has those powers to prevent disease. Most people are probably relieved to know that they don't have to spend that money on these vitamins anymore.

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It's Like a Free Lunch -- But Without the Calories

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

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"It's a little bit like a free lunch without the calories," says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... exercise in a pill! Wait -- we've been promised this before...

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Schools at Risk: A Unique Perspective

Gerald Bracey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Education History, Education Reform, Technology, Public Schools, Fertilizer, U.S High School Graduation Rate, Fritz Haber, Pills, Healthy Living News

Discussions about the condition of public schools usually center on curriculum, instruction and test scores. A new book by Gene V. Glass reads more like a thriller than an academic treatise.

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