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Category Archives: Medication

Dangers of Heartburn Treatment Exposed

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Drugs like Nexium and Prevacid are helping many patients with serious stomach and digestive problems, but new research suggests that these medicines used for heartburn treatment are risky choices for regular users who have less serious conditions.
The risks include an increased chance of bacterial infection (from organism clostridium difficile or c. [...]

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Medical myths and misconseptions debunked

Thursday, January 29, 2009

As much as we might wish them to be true some of the most common medical “cures” we’ve heard from Mom or an older family member have now been disproved by researchers from Indiana University as just medical myths.
An article appearing in the current issue of the British Medical Journal dispels half [...]

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10 Ways of Reducing Prescription Drug Costs

Monday, January 12, 2009

Prescription medications are an increasingly costly part of everyone’s budget, and in tight economic times, finding ways of reducing prescription drug costs is very attractive.
Sometimes a terrible choice has to be made, one medication over another, prescriptions or food… insanely expensive but still helpful medications that aren’t covered by insurance and may be out of [...]

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Fake Drugs Real Benefits

Friday, November 14, 2008

A just released survey of 679 internists and rheumatologists, chosen at random from a national list, reports that more than half of responding physicians used fake medicines – placebos – to treat patients with tough to treat conditions.
These physicians are drawing on information that for a given medical condition, it’s not unusual for one-third of [...]

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What You Need To Know About Antibiotics And C. Difficile

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Hardly as well known a superbug as MRSA, Clostridium difficile (also known as C. difficile or C. diff for short) is a species of bacteria that, in the wrong amounts, can bring on an infection that at best is very uncomfortable and at worst a serious threat to your life.
Once confined to patients in hospitals [...]

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