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Ritalin and ADHD Drugs in This Weeks News
by Daria Belov
There have been a number of Ritalin and ADHD drug related articles in the news this past week. Some articles suggest that the use of Ritalin shows no long-term benefit and others suggest ADHD drugs may be stunting the growth of children.
Scanning online news sources earlier ...
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FDA-approved Lawsuit Preemption
By Darrel Crain, DC
Everyone seems to be picking on the poor Food and Drug Administration (FDA) these days, but for vastly different reasons. To the hundreds of thousands of victims (including dead ones) of adverse prescription drug reactions each year, and their families, the FDA is failing to...
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ADHD Drugs Pose Serious Risk to Children
ICPA News
ADHD Drugs Pose Serious Risk to Children -- Chiropractic Recommended as Safer Approach A new study has found that drugs used to treat attention deficit disorders may put kids at risk for of sudden death. The study, in the American Journal of Psychiatry, found an association between s...
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More Than Half of all Primary School Children Taking Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
It's not just kids in the U.S. folks. Children throughout the world are being over-medicated by doctors and their own parents.
A survey was conducted to find if children were at risk of being over-medicated. The recent Melbourne (Australia) study found more than h...
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Selling Drugs is Good Business
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
On September 10, 2002, researchers from the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation (The NIHCM Foundation) provided a report to the Federal Trade Commission at a health care workshop. The topic was Direct to Consumer (DTC) adve...
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Drugs, Drugs, and more Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Drugs around the world, if you don't think the world has an obsession with drugs, read some the articles linked below.
* News links often go fast as websites make more room for updated content. Your best approach is to get the links as soon as you can (check our s...
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Prozac - Drugs in your Mailbox
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Dog food, breath mints, shampoo and gum. We have all received unexpected freebies in the mail, but prescription drugs?
A lawsuit has been filed in Florida after drug pushers (what would you call them?) began sending samples of Prozac in the mail to unsuspecting fo...
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Even Those Pushing Drugs Are Worried
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
1 in 8, that is the estimated number of Americans that seek out a drug after seeing it advertised in a television commercial. Drug advertising has apparently been so successful for the pharmaceutical industry that they now have a $3 billion advertising budget. But medi...
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Savvy Health-Care Seekers Don't Take Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Federal health economists report today that for the first time in almost a decade, expenditures on health have outpaced the growth of the U.S. economy.
According to reports, this was the third year of accelerated growth in health-care spending, while the nation's ...
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Drugs Direct to You
A report from Wednesday's Yahoo news tells us that direct to consumer drug advertising has been wildly successful for the pharmaceutical industry. According to a study released by the National Institute for Healthcare Management Research and Education Foundation (NIHCM), a handful of prescriptio...
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More Advertising - More Drugs
An article on MSNBC suggests that Americans are taking more prescription drugs thanks in part to massive advertising introduced by the drug industry. According to the article, Americans who visited a medical doctors office in 1999 were far more likely to receive more than one drug then Americans...
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Are You Taking Useless Drugs
Are you uselessly taking drugs that are doing you no good, costing you lots of money, and possibly putting you at risk of suffering from more serious health conditions?
According to an article on MSNBC, "Americans are expected to spend $4.7 billion this year on prescription allergy medicati...
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Drugs, Guns, and Chickens Too
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Here are some stories appearing in recent news that may be of interest to you. First, health care in the U.S. Problems are not just a result of bad handwriting.
Health Care in Critical Condition
"A new report from the prestigious RAND Corporation says the quali...
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Canada Wants New Rules on Prescriptions
An inquest into a teenager's death is resulting in calls for new rules on prescription drugs in Canada.
According to a recent article from The Canadian Press, a jury is calling for substantial changes to be made regarding Canadian rules on prescription drugs. The changes are being sought fo...
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Less Drugs, Less Death and Doctors
Drugs, death and doctors. That's what the news feed link for ABC's health news read. While those are rather strong terms designed to get the users attention, it tells us a bit about America's current attitude towards the medical profession.
According to the ABC News report, the Food and Dru...
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