Tag Archives: medication
All patients to be barcoded by 2013
Source: Telegraph The barcodes, which will be read by handheld scanners, are to be issued to patients from October neaxt year under the orders of the Information Standards Board (ISB) for Health and Social Care. By next April trusts have … Continue reading →
Chemical cosh drugs ‘given to children aged three’ as prescriptions to treat hyperactivity soar
Laura Clark Daily Mail Prescriptions for ‘chemical cosh’ drugs to treat hyperactivity have soared four-fold in a decade amid evidence that children as young as three are taking the medication. The number of prescriptions for Ritalin leapt from 158,000 in … Continue reading →
Heroin vaccine won’t ‘cure’ what ails addicts
Angela Garcia LA Times My aunt Marion is in the hospital dying of liver and kidney failure, the result of her 20-year struggle with heroin use. I was told of her imminent death the same day news broke about a … Continue reading →
Researchers Say People With High Levels of Worry and Anxiety Have Higher IQs
Marco Torres Prevent Disease Worry warts may have something to talk about at the water cooler now. To be human is to worry — about finances, your children’s health, work, even whether you remembered to unplug the iron when you … Continue reading →
Babies Sleep Better If They Are Drugged And Vaccinated In The Afternoon
Christina England VacTruth Babies are now being drugged with powerful medications to reduce potential pain and fever before being vaccinated with multiple vaccinations. This is said to aid sleep which according to experts maximizes the vaccines response. Linda Franck and … Continue reading →
Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Drugs Says New Study
Dr. Mercola Mercola Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and “disabling”. Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type … Continue reading →
Remote-controlled chip implant delivers bone drug
Associated Press USA Today WASHINGTON – Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted microchips in seven women that did just that, oozing out the right dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing. Implanted … Continue reading →
Is Nerve Damage The Rule, Not the Exception With Cholesterol Meds?
Source: Mercola Spending on cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins increased by $160 million in 2010, for a total spending of nearly $19 billion in the U.S., the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics reported in their Use of Medicines in the United … Continue reading →
New ‘smart’ pill tells patients when drugs dose due
Source: Telegraph A new “intelligent” pill that tells patients how to better follow doctors’ orders and take medication properly is to go on sale in Britain within months, it has been announced. The tiny edible microchip records precise details of … Continue reading →
Health Myths Created by the “Father of Spin” – Do You Still Believe Them?
Source: Mercola New research has revealed just how misleading and questionable the results of medication studies cited in top medical journals actually are — adding to an already sizeable mountain of data on mainstream medical manipulation. Pharmaceutical and vaccine makers … Continue reading →