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Mood-Altering Drugs and Our Children
This article is from a February 27, 2000 Q & A session titled:
Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?
Article is available at: WorldNetDaily
The article discusses the uses of Ritalin and Prozac in children, and points out similarities of psychotropic drug use in recent shooting tragedies.
Accor...
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U.S. GAO seeks more info on drug errors
The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO's mission is to help the Congress oversee federal programs and operations to assure accountability to the American people.
A two-year study by the U.S. GAO has concluded that adverse drug events, complications or even d...
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Maybe ADHD Isn't the Real Problem
Nicholas Regush of ABCNEWS.com reports that "Attention Deficit" may not be the real problem.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, prescriptions for methylpenidate, know as Ritalin, increased more than 60 percent between 1990 and 1996.
Misdirected Attention?
Between 1990 and 19...
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Prescription Drug Advertising Creating Problems
Prescription drug spots on television are becoming as common as those for Budweiser and Dodge.
The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions on print and media ads in the last year, and are expected to spend more because "drug makers want consumers to walk into the doctor's office and ask for a ...
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Race is on to make drugs to fight super bugs
For the last 10 years, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere have, according to news stories, been sounding alarms about the growth of antibiotic resistance, a problem that is particularly prevalent in hospitals, where microbes spread quickly and attack the e...
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Medication Use at Home Sends 700,000 to ER Annually
by Michael Dorausch, DC
planetc1.com staff writer
According to a study published in the October 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, as many as 700,000 Americans end up in emergency rooms each year as a result of adverse reactions (side effects) to drugs they've taken...
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Getting well beyond medicine
By Darrel Crain, DC
Many years ago Emerson pointed out that "The first wealth is health." Notice he didn't say health might be something to think about some day maybe if you are in the right mood and have a few spare minutes and there is nothing good on TV.
No, Emerson called it first weal...
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Vitamin envy and spin doctors
By Darrel Crain, Doctor of Chiropractic
In the brave new world of medicine, spin doctors are emerging as the most powerful of doctors. While the clinical doctors are busy trying to stave off the suffering and premature death of their patients using drugs and surgery, the spin doctors are busy c...
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Adderall Drug Controversy Continues
by Michael Dorausch, DC
Controversy surrounding the prescription stimulant medication Adderall has been in the press frequently this past week.
Adderall, a prescription amphetamine, typically prescribed for children and adults with ADHD, is becoming more popular for its off label uses. Amo...
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Britney Spears More Popular Than Deadly Drugs
by Daria Belov
News of the Britney Spears performance at MTV music awards, out numbers news of a Sharp Increase in Deaths from Consumer Drugs, by a factor of nearly 25 to 1.
It's no surprise that we are more interested in entertainment than we are matters of health, at least until that hea...
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The Cellular Side of the Story on Health
By Darrel Crain, DC
There are so many diseases to choose from these days, no one seems to know exactly how many there are. I have heard estimates from medical experts of least 10,000 different ways to be sick. By remarkable coincidence, many of these diseases were discovered and described just ...
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Coming soon to a child near you: The war against cholesterol
By Darrel Crain, DC
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has new guidelines to tackle cardiovascular disease by screening children as young as 2 years old for cholesterol levels. If the numbers don't add up, the new AAP plan advises doctors to first promote weight loss, increased physical a...
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Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering
by Barbara Loe Fisher
Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going to get? While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing how much of the...
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Kids Eating In Good Spirit!
By Dr. Ed Leshin
For years we as a society have heard about the "war" on drugs, but how about the "war" on negative marketing to our children? Recently, the news has been filled with articles about childhood obesity and the negative health effects on our nations youth. We are told that 25% of s...
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Merck Wants a New Drug - Vioxx, Zocor, Gardasil and Cancer
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Google News headlines today read... "Merck cutbacks: 7,000 jobs, 5 plants" spurred by an announcement made by Merck yesterday.
According to various news articles, Merck, the world's third-largest drugmaker, will be closing 5 plants in the wake of 6,400 lawsuits th...
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