Category Archives: Prescriptions

According to new data from the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in San Diego, people taking medication for insomnia now have something else to lose sleep over. Research published yesterday in the medical journal BMJ by Daniel F. Kripke, Robert D. Langer and Lawrence E. Kline points to very strong links between sleeping pills and early death. This was a large study with clear, compelling and statistically significant findings. "The results were pretty surprising," said Kripke in an interview with Time. "And as far as I know, the mortality and cancer risks are not reflected in any [sleep aid medication] labels." The study followed 10,529 people who took sleeping pills, as well as about 23,676 others who did not, for about 2.5 years between 2002 and 2007. The subjects' average age was 54. Like us on Facebook Even those who took less than 18 pills a year faced increased mortality--they were 3.6 times more likely to die than non-users. Those who took between 18 and 132 doses a year were four times more likely, and those who took 132 or more were five times more likely. These are frightening statistics for the 6 to 10 percent of Americans who use sleeping … Continue reading →

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16-02-2012 09:36 The coroner's office is trying to determine the singer's cause of death. For more on this story, click here: abcnews.go.com See more here: Whitney Houston Cause of Death Remains Mystery as Doctors are Investigated Over Prescriptions - Video … Continue reading →

Zaneta Lowe 5:42 p.m. CST, February 16, 2012 FAST FACTS: HCG combined with a low calorie diet often leads to quick weight loss. The FDA banned OTC HCG products, but you can still find them. Mississippi doctors can't prescribe it for weight loss anymore.   (Memphis 2/16/2012) "I was obese, I weighed 285 pounds." Over the last six months, 57-year-old Jack Hammers has dropped 80 pounds. "Pants went from a 46 to a 36," says Hammers. Hammers says he owes it all to the HCG diet. First created in the 1950s, the diet combines the use of daily HCG injections with eating only 500 calories a day.   Hammers and his wife Alice tried it together. She's lost 30 pounds. "You keep each other motivated," Alice says. The HCG diet has recently re-surged in popularity. There are weight loss clinics all across the country and here in the MidSouth. Dr. James "Bo" Adams has prescribed HCG for about 200 patients since he added the weight loss clinic to his practice more than a year ago. "We looked into it and thought, that might be a reasonable thing to offer to patients because obesity is a health care issue," says Adams. In … Continue reading →

February 09, 2012 BR RESEARCH Wake up! Two words that sum up the Article IV review for Pakistan by the IMF. Just before repayment starts, the fund in an unprecedented tone has told the countrys economic managers to take pervasive actions, before it is too late. The point is simple; monetary and fiscal policies are not in sync with economic realities and in election year, the reality can get harsher, very quickly. The pointy references allude to the extent of pressure that the Fund may exercise on the countrys economic policies, should the depleting levels of foreign reserves take Pakistan back to the lenders window. The Funds tone betrays urgency. Over the past four months, not only has the central bank slashed the discount rate by 150 basis points, despite slippage in foreign reserves and structural imbalances, but also it has been active in the foreign exchange market shouldering the local currency against depreciation. SBPs consistent facilitation of the banking sector to continue lending to the government has also caught the attention of the IMF. Still there are many who plausibly contend that the prescription of the Fund should be set aside in favour of lower interest rates to boost … Continue reading →

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — What if you need a certain medicine, maybe one that would save your life, and you can’t get it? WJZ investigates prescription drug shortages. Denise Koch talks with University of Maryland women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese about her very personal fight to find a solution. You’d never know it now, but not too long ago one of these twins nearly died. “They told me he had only a matter of weeks to live,” said Mark Thomas, Tyler’s father. University of Maryland women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese and her husband Mark remember the moment doctors told them their son Tyler had leukemia. “Obviously you feel helpless,” said Frese. “You’re thinking the worst.  My initial thought that whole night without being educated was ‘How much time do I have left with my son?’” Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital immediately started pumping chemotherapy drugs into Tyler to stop the fast moving disease. “These chemicals are doing these things to your child, yet they’re also saving his life,” said Thomas. It was only after his chemotherapy that Thomas and Frese discovered the miracle drug that saved their son might not be there for others. In short supply, its cost had skyrocketed from $12 … Continue reading →

As preparations continue for Whitney Houston's funeral in her hometown of Newark, NJ, so does the investigation into her death. After an autopsy Sunday, authorities said there were no indications of foul play and no obvious signs of trauma. It could be weeks, however, before the coroner's office completes toxicology tests to establish the cause of death. Reports say some of the prescription bottles found in her room may have come from the same pharmacy that provided drugs to the late Michael Jackson. Six prescription pill bottles were reportedly found, for Xanax, Lorazepam, Ibuprofen, Midol, Amoxicillin and Valium. If anyone was criminally negligent in prescribing the drugs to Houston, and they caused her death, they could be charged, a source told The Sun newspaper.  "[Authorities] need to determine that no one is criminally negligent. There still could be charges in this case," the source said. Houston's death recalled the end of Michael Jackson's life, as he tried to turn his career around with an ambitious series of concerts. The 50-year-old struck many as youthfully energetic and upbeat, while others said he was bedeviled by insomnia that led him to a fatal dosage of prescription drugs in June 2009. Houston too … Continue reading →

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Spending on the advertising of brand-name prescription drugs on television  — which not long ago was a fast-growing marketing venue for the pharmaceutical industry in the United States — has dropped more than 20 percent in the last five years. According to new figures from Nielsen, spending on television advertising fell 23 percent to $2.4 billion from the beginning of 2007 to the end of last year. Spending in 2011 dropped 2 percent from 2010, and last year was the fourth consecutive year that such spending fell. Drug companies in the United States spent more than $3.1 billion on advertising pharmaceuticals on television in 2007, Nielsen said. The decline is in sharp contrast to the decade-long drug-industry advertising spree that began in 1997, when the Food and Drug Administration loosened its regulations and allowed direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs on TV. Some industry analysts attribute part of the decline to controversy over such ads. Employers and health insurance companies have long complained that TV ads drive consumers to the latest, often most expensive, pills. And doctors complain that their patients often pressure them into prescribing these heavily advertised drugs. Perhaps the most well-known criticism of  TV advertising of pharmaceuticals arose in … Continue reading →

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