Tag: pharmaceuticals

Last week the FDA approved Belviq, or lorcaserin hydrochloride, for treatment of chronic weight problems. The pill, to be combined with a reduced-calorie diet...

Reports of the rise of the use of prescription painkillers are increasing. Opiate medications are one of the most-prescribed types of drugs today. Although...

We usually don’t think twice about the safety of tap water. It’s safe to drink as far as we’re concerned, because we are lucky...

We’ve been made to believe that a chemical imbalance in the brain, specifically serotonin, can be fixed by popping a pill, mainly because the...

More and more we learn that by taking ibuprofen we subject ourselves to serious health conditions like heart attack or stroke. Yet, most of...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The idea that we’re unwittingly ingesting Prozac each time we drink a glass of tap water sounds like...

The pharmaceutical industry in America poses quite a conundrum. On one hand, it provides the medicines that some people literally need to live. Some...

I worked in a busy family physician's office about 18 years or so ago and was astounded by how many drug reps came in...

A new study published on November 3 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) uncovered America’s insatiable use of prescription drugs. The...

When it comes to trick-or-treating, there's always some degree of anxiety for parents. As children walk door to door, collecting candy from strangers, safety...