Pharmacists and health experts are recommending that New Year’s resolutions include cleaning out medicine cabinets of old prescriptions or expired over-the-counter drugs.
Medicine cabinets, refrigerators and drawers tend to pile up with old items. And old medicines can be particularly dangerous if collected and forgotten in a cabinet.
“You should do this once a year, at least,” said Dr. Nick Jouriles, president of the American College of Emergency Read the rest of this entry »
CEBU – To help him get better, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeсa will have to forget his craving for lechon de leche and stop munching on crispy pata.
This as the mayor was told by his attending physicians in the United States to go on a “low cholesterol” diet.
This was bared yesterday by former Cebu City Councilor George Rama, one of Osmeсa’s close allies. Rama said that Mayor Osmeсa, wife Margot and his US-based brother, Antonio Read the rest of this entry »
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov. 23 (UPI) — Zimbabwean President
is trying to cover up the extent of a cholera epidemic in the country, doctors say.
Medics protesting outside the Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare were beaten by riot police last week as they called for Mugabe to provide drugs and intravenous drips for cholera victims, The Sunday Times of London reported.
The doctors said the government is paralyzed by the cholera crisis and is only interested Read the rest of this entry »
Market Scan
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’s blockbuster anemia drug didn’t hit the biotech company as hard as Wall Street had forecast, surprising investors late Wednesday and sending the company’s shares rallying in after-hours trading.
) reported significantly better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and upped its full-year earnings forecast after sales of Aranesp rebounded after being slammed by safety concerns and reimbursement Read the rest of this entry »
: Medical devices such as artificial heart valves and hips are being allowed into the marketplace without undergoing the government’s most stringent review process, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. The report, “Medical Devices: FDA Should Take Steps to Ensure That High-Risk Device Types Are Approved Through the Most Stringent Premarket Review Process,” finds that “a significant number” of the class III devices, “including Read the rest of this entry »
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The Senate will send a medical team to the St. Luke’s Medical Center to determine what is ailing former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jose Balajadia said Thursday morning.
Balajadia said the order came directly from Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. because of the hospital management’s refusal to issue a medical bulletin to the media and members of the upper chamber’s security team. Read the rest of this entry »
In recent years, the Food and Drug Administration has changed its rules for drug labeling to help shield drug companies from lawsuits, a practice that a new House report calls “a serious abuse of the agency’s public health authorities.” The new labeling procedures require that important new information about drug interactions or side effects be approved by the FDA before it can be added to the label. A report prepared by the Democratic staff members Read the rest of this entry »
Raw food? Weight Watchers? South Beach? Eating real food (whole grains, vegetables, lean protein) at regular intervals? If diet indecision has you still eating doughnuts for breakfast, non-whole-wheat pizza for lunch and vowing to pick a program “next week,” then you need to know this: It doesn’t matter which diet you choose, as long as you enjoy it as much as your favorite iPod tune. When it comes to reaching your weight goals, it is your ability Read the rest of this entry »
Fiber in ice cream?! The hot new additive being showcased at your supermarket is good, old-fashioned fiber. Today, yogurt, instant breakfast drinks and even toaster pastries are being pumped with it. What’s new about roughage? Recent research reveals it does a whole lot more than keep you regular: It may prevent many of the diseases of old age.
WHAT YOU NEED: Aim for 25 grams a day if you’re a woman; 35 grams if you’re a man. Add Read the rest of this entry »
hmm is it just me or does their explanation not make sense?
i’m no doctor but i thought drugs like ritalin were supposed to address chemical imbalances in the brain? that they were not to dope children up to avoid LEARNED bad behaviour.
seems an awful coincidence that so many foster kids have ADD and the like…
Ritalin is a stimulant. Its real name is Methylphenidate. It is supposed to work (like many medicines, nobody really knows how, but Read the rest of this entry »