All Stories Tagged With: "drugs"
Massage Shown to Reduce Inflammation at Molecular Level
Massage is a fantastic technique for reducing stress and inducing deep relaxation. Receiving a massive can be the perfect treatment to lift the great proverbial weight off your shoulders and make way for an easier day. While these are important reasons to receive a massage, scientists have found that a message reduces inflammation at the molecular level, causing it to reduce pain similar to painkilling drugs. The best part? It isn’t a drug.
Chemotherapy Negatively Impacts Genetic Coding for Future Generations
Chemotherapy is an accepted method by the mainstream medical establishment as a means to fight against cancer, but its effectiveness and reliability is highly in question. Now, research even brings into question the effect chemotherapy has on your entire hereditary line, with researchers linking chemotherapy drug usage with DNA mutations that extend to your offspring. The effects of chemotherapy on the body are highly destructive, and often leave the cancer patient in a worse state than they were in before.
UK ‘Drug-Driving’ Law Ignores Far Deadlier Legal Drugs
The United Kingdom government will soon be advised by an expert panel on introducing a new offense of ‘drug-driving’. Maximum levels for different drugs will be considered for those driving while under the influence of illegal drugs, very similar to laws already put in place concerning alcohol consumption and driving. The panel aims to conclude which specific amount of cocaine, cannabis, heroin, or other drugs constitutes as an offense. As revealed in The Independent, it is expected that the panel begin focusing on these regulations this spring.
Simple Dietary Changes is the Answer to Treating Children Labeled as Having ADHD
A recent article published in the journal Pediatrics evaluated and compared dietary impact as a replacement for pharmaceutical medications in children labeled as having attention deficit hyperactive disorder. Researchers J. Gordon Millichap and Michelle M. Yee analyzed 70 studies and found that a diet heavy in fiber, folate, and omega 3 fats could be the key to helping children deemed to suffer from ADHD.
FDA Claims Walnuts to be Illegal Drugs | Government Lunacy at its Best
Well the Food and Drug Administration has really made a name for themselves this time. In response to claims by a company named Diamond Foods that walnuts possess health benefits, the FDA’s initial response to the claim was to send the company a letter informing them of their wrongdoing. What did Diamond Foods do wrong? According to the FDA, claims made by Diamond Foods that omega-3′s found in walnuts produce health benefits make their walnuts “drugs”.
Pharmaceutical Companies Struggle With ADHD Drug Shortages
The amount of children being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) has risen dramatically over the past couple years, thanks to questionable diagnosing techniques and profit-driven guidelines. Under normal circumstances the drug companies would be completely thrilled with the influx of ADHD-labeled children. But while they are definitely still excited from the profits being raked in, they are actually struggling to acquire enough of the active ingredient used in the drug to ‘treat’ the ‘disease’, Adderall.
Pharmaceutical Company Raises Drug Price from $10 to $1,500 Per Dose
Over 500,000 babies are born prematurely in the United States each year. Unfortunately, with premature birth comes comes an increased risk for health consequences. As a “solution” for these premature births, KV pharmaceutical company offers a drug known as Makena which is meant to reduce the risk for premature births. But good luck using it if you’re interested, as the company recently raised the price from $10 to $1,500 per dose.
More Deaths from Pharmaceutical Painkillers than Cocaine and Heroin Combined
More Americans died in 2008 from pharmaceutical painkiller overdose than fatalities from illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin combined. Responsible for nearly 15,000 deaths in 2008, prescription painkillers have become wildly among Americans.
FDA Warns Over Pregnancy Drug Risks
The Food and Drug Administration is now issuing stronger warnings over the popular pregnancy drug terbutaline, which prevents premature birth.
Feds May Allow Unregulated Pharmaceuticals in Water Supply
Federal regulators in charge of monitoring and controlling pharmaceutical drugs in your drinking water may allow the contaminants to go unregulated. Unsure “which pharmaceuticals pose human health risks,” the regulators are standing idle.
Kids in Hospitals Given Up to 35 Medications a Week
The number of drugs given to children in hospitals is sky high, with hospitalized kids receiving as much as 35 drugs a week. Children younger than 1 at the 90th percentile of daily medication use are given 11 drugs while children 1 year or older are given 13 drugs.
Antibiotics Prescriptions Declining – But Not Enough
The concern over antibiotics being over-prescribed has been going on for years. Now it looks like the push for less prescriptions has finally paid off. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there is a 10 percent drop in antibiotic prescription rates for kids 14 and younger since the early 90′s.
Big Pharma to Charge 115,200 Dollars Per Patient Each Year for New Lung Cancer Drug
Pfizer plans on coming out with a new drug to treat a rare form of lung cancer. Today that therapy is called Xalkori. Pfizer plans on charging each patient $115,200/year for the treatment.
Antibiotic Overuse a Serious Problem
The overuse of antibiotics has become a serious problem. Mainstream doctors are now warning against the excessive overuse of antibiotics due to the permanent negative alterations in digestive flora.
Foods Beat Cholesterol Drugs in Effectiveness Without Nasty Side Effects
A new study has found that nutrition, not pharmaceutical cholesterol drugs, are the most effective means of lowering “bad” cholesterol levels. While it has been established that cholesterol is not always a powerful indicator of heart health.
Facebook, Google as Addictive as Drugs Finds Study
Facebook, Twitter, and Google may be in the same category as mind-altering drugs when it comes to their addictive properties, according to new research.
How Big Pharma Got Americans Hooked on Anti-Psychotic Drugs
Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses.
What Could be Lurking in Your Milk?
A glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, scientists have shown. Using a highly sensitive test, they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk. The doses of drugs were far too small to have an effect on anyone drinking them, but the results highlight how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food chain.
Prescription Drug Bottles Lack Proper Safety Warnings
Drugstores are not providing adequate safety information to consumers when they pick up their prescription medications, according an investigation from Consumer Reports. The report reveals that drug labels sometimes lack key safety warnings, and some pharmacies fail to include the medication guides required by the federal government. The report was based on a “spot check” of drugstores in Yonkers, N.Y., belong to five chains.
The Power of Placebo — When Believing is Healing
A placebo is a sham medical treatment that contains no active ingredients — but your belief in it alone may still be beneficial to your health. The placebo effect works best on conditions that are emotional and subjective. A recent study suggests that the placebo effect may be at work in many headache treatments. The placebo effect can change your heartbeat, blood pressure, digestion and many other factors that you don’t control.
