Posted on May 8th, 2012 by buschchiro
Reuters recently reported that a federal judge ordered Merck & Co. to pay a $321 million criminal fine for marketing Vioxx improperly as a painkiller. Merck plead guilty to having illegally promoted Vioxx for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis before it was approved for that use in 2002. In 2004, Vioxx was withdrawn from the [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2012 by buschchiro
Drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. If the body is dehydrated this raises your blood pressure and water helps our arteries and flushes salt. Eat a fiber-rich diet: fresh vegetable, fruits and whole grain. Eliminate refined foods as much as possible. Make the effort to eat foods that are as close to their original [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2012 by buschchiro
The FDA has recently announced an alert about the safety of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The following is a list of common products warned about. • AcipHex (rabeprazole sodium) • Dexilant (dexlansoprazole) • Nexium (esomeprazole magnesium) • Omeprazole (omeprazole) Over-the-Counter (OTC) • Prevacid (lansoprazole) and OTC Prevacid 24hr • Prilosec (omeprazole) and OTC • Protonix [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2012 by buschchiro
The Food and Drug Administration last week issued two additional warning about statin drugs. The warnings were about the definite risk of getting diabetes and about having mental confusion. Now all statin drugs must carry warning labels about elevated blood sugar and memory and cognitive problems. From the beginning there were many reports about mental [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2012 by buschchiro
Pain pills, antihistamines such Benadryl and many antidepressants and other mood altering drugs can affect the way our brain functions. It is reported that even statins can affect memory. Many people buy over-the-counter products from the drugstore and some of the products with regular use can impair thinking and cause loss of memory. Elderly people can [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2012 by buschchiro
Rick is a young businessman and does quite a bit of international traveling, and his low back pain was killing him!. Two years ago, Rick was lifting his garage door and felt something happen in his low back. He was diagnosed with a herniated disc. Rick tried Advil, standard chiropractic treatment, physical therapy and he even [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2012 by buschchiro
Prescription drugs according a former drug czar is the biggest and fastest-growing part of America’s drug problem. According to the CDC the misuse of prescription medication causing fatal overdoses has shown a drastic increase. It is a good thing gone awry and now is an unrecognized epidemic. And is the 10th leading cause of death [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2012 by buschchiro
Sciatica or sciatic pain is symptom of a back problem, and it is not a diagnosis of the actual problem itself. Sciatic pain refers to pain along the length of the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The sciatic nerve branches off your spine at the pelvis and travels down each leg. A [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by buschchiro
Four pharmaceutical makers are developing a stronger version of hydrocodone – the second most abused pain medication in the US. The first most abused is Oxycodone. Experts on addiction are very worried that this will create even more abuse of pain pills; addicts could crush the product for a potentially lethal high. The president of [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2011 by buschchiro
Cervical Radiculopathy is a term that describes radiating nerve pain that can start with a disc problem such as herniated or degenerative discs in your neck (cervical) area. Your pain can run down into your shoulder, into your arm and on into your hands and fingers. Along with the pain, you can also experience numbness, [...]
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