I am getting very tired of the ads on TV that make you think that normal bodily functions are now ailments that need pills… Personally: I urinate a lot. I have always urinated a lot. I will always urinate a lot Do I think it’s a problem? Of course not. It’s…
From the New York Times Wyeth’s Use of Medical Ghostwriters QuestionedBy DUFF WILSON Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company’s involvement in medical ghostwriting. At least one article was published even after a federal…
If you have been a reader of this blog, you know I do not take kindly to what are called the Big Pharmas… Yet even I can be disgusted more than I already was as I just finished reading this book by Melody Petersen: Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick…
I guess the answer is: as long as the big pharmas push for their bottom line and not anyones health ! The most recent “news:” WASHINGTON: Another study has found that diabetes drugs intended to help patients live longer, healthier lives may in fact increase the chances they will die — this time of heart…
Another set of drugs and again – problems….This time it’s the anti heartburn “stuff.” If you take these on a long term basis you stand the chance of fracturing your hips…. Why? The drugs may reduce the body’s absorption of calcium…. I’m not sure anyone needs all the drugs we have pushed on us daily…