Tag: medicine
group name: health
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April 18, 2009 10:51 AM EDT --
A bottle of Bayer's heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough.
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June 07, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
Together RX Access is a program for people with no prescription drug coverage, not eligible for medicare and a legal resident of the United States or Puerto Rico. If you are one of these people and fit . . .
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June 19, 2009 02:21 PM EDT --
I got out of the hospital Thursaday. I lied and said I was fine. I swear they were killing me. I had an ashthma attack, and nobody came, i started to scream. Finally, someone . . .
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April 04, 2009 11:12 AM EDT --
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
I just finished reading this book and wanted to recommend it to my . . .
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April 12, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
The FDA has put out a document for comments titled "Guidance for
Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their
Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration: DRAFT GUIDANCE" . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:05 PM EDT --
I have my first cold in ages, and I'd prefer not to attend fencing class either woozy or high strung from commercial cold medicine. Anyone have any home remedies that might make things like getting . . .
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November 20, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
Mary Jackson (not her real name) is 93 years old, and has been my patient for 35 years. She stopped school after the 8 th grade. Nevertheless, she is always up on the latest news and is a shrewd . . .
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January 15, 2008 06:02 PM EST --
Have you or someone you know ever had shingles? Up to 20% of people get shingles at some point during their lifetime, so it is a good idea to know something about this painful disease.
What is shingles? . . .
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January 23, 2008 08:19 PM EST --
With the price of nearly everything sky rocketing, it is becoming increasingly difficult to pay for prescription medications. I have noted that many people are cutting back on their prescription medication. . . .
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May 18, 2007 05:47 AM EDT --
January 25, 2007 is a day that Shannon Malloy of Nebraska will remember for the rest of her life. In fact, the real surprise is that she still has a ‘rest of her life’. On that awful winter’s . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:13 AM EDT --
I’ve always been a bit skeptical about all the hype over Viagra. I mean to say, isn’t it a common complaint of women that their significant others usually think with their flagpoles, anyway? . . .
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February 11, 2007 10:49 PM EST --
As most Americans know, one of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) most critical jobs is to make sure that the medicines we take are safe.
But did you know that if a medication starts . . .
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March 09, 2007 10:52 PM EST --
Alzheimer's is a dreaded and scary disease. Although many speculate as to the causes, no one has been able to come up yet with a concrete answer.
Sometime ago the fear of cooking with aluminum . . .
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July 10, 2007 11:25 PM EDT --
Growing up the only tea I ever really experienced was the Lipton. My step-mother grew up in the south and this is what . . .
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September 10, 2008 06:52 AM EDT --
Red Bull Can Give You a Stroke
Just one can of the popular stimulant energy drink Red Bull can increase your risk of heart attack or stroke. The effect was seen even in young people.
The caffeine-loaded . . .
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July 16, 2009 01:06 PM EDT --
They increased my medicine again which is good and bad. Good because it does work once it gets going. Bad because of all my side effects again. Nausea, tired, weak, forgetful (worse then normal). Sometimes . . .
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April 14, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
Well, after some pretty good scares, health wise, it would appear the antibiotics that were given me several days ago, are finally starting to win out on my infection. Discharge is down, the area is less . . .
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July 31, 2007 04:16 PM EDT --
We use energy sources to drive cars, light homes and talk on the phone. Everywhere you look, there is energy working to power our world. Can energy be used to improve our health? Absolutely—energy . . .
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February 20, 2007 10:17 AM EST --
Everyone has someone in their life suffers from painful psych symptoms such as mood swings, depression, constant worry--but wouldn't be caught dead in a therapist's or psychiatrist's . . .
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April 30, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
I must admit, until a few years ago, I had never been to an OB/GYN. I think partly, it was due to the fact that I am Motherless so I didn't have that someone to MAKE me go and partly because . . .
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