Tag: Doctors and Drugs

While pharmacies must, by law, provide accurate labels that describe how to take a given medication, they are not required...

What is happening within the medical and pharmaceutical industries with off label prescribing?  Listen to this natural health podcast and...

In the last year, about 750,000 patients sought cheaper, friendlier, safer medical treatment via 'medical tourism', outside the borders of...

An article in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine reports that children immunized against the flu stood an equal...

A new study on Vytorin/Inegy found that in addition to having little proven benefit, it may actually cause an increase...

A recent study has found that acupuncture beats the pants off of drug therapy in reducing hot flashes.

Helen Morrogh-Bernard, a primatologist from the University of Cambridge in Great Britain, reported in the International Journal of Primatology that...

If our medical doctors do not have the ability to teach us the importance of basic health and nutrition, how...

A new study reveals that there's no evidence supporting the common practice of removing the ovaries during a hysterectomy and...

A series of studies and plenty of anecdotal evidence have found a relationship between bisphosphonates and spontaneous fractures, often preceded...

When it comes to skyrocketing obesity rates, everyone seems to have a theory: go low-carb, high-carb, high-protein, raw, cut portions,...

Steady restrictions by the FDA could affect your ability to intelligently purchase health and nutritional products, while the pharmaceutical agencies...

A recent study sponsored by Merck and Schering-Plough found that after several years on two types of cholesterol-lowering medications, patients...

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a new study has identified several areas of the brain that frequently faltered, literally shut...

According to conservative estimates, an astounding 7% of practicing physicians are drug addicted, particularly to alcohol, benzodiazepines, an assortment of...

20 percent of scientists use prescription drugs recreationally to improve concentration or memory. As for medical doctors, an astounding 7%...

Since 1992, the number of kids in England taking drugs to control conditions such as behavior problems, autism, and attention...

A recent Associated Press article picked up by the international media reports how a sick 11-year-old girl died after her...

The new trend of placing wireless, implantable pace makers are found to be vulnerable to hacking. Understand the truth about...

Recent studies show that an implantable cardioverter defibrillator is potentially susceptible to malicious attacks by computer hackers.

Massachusetts state governor has allocated a 40 percent increase in the fiscal 2009 budget to cover the increasing cost of...

The hysterectomy has become the second most common surgery for women in the US, after Cesarean section. And of those...

The FDA just proposed that children ages 1-11 who suffer from heartburn should now take Nexium.

Understand what ‘off label drugs’ are and how the FDA handles prescription medications under this umbrella. Protect yourself, and your...

Off-label drug usage is based almost exclusively on anecdotal evidence - just like most herbs and neutraceuticals -- except for...