Millions of seniors use risky drug combos

CHICAGO – At least 2 million older Americans are taking a combination of drugs or supplements that can be a risky mix — from blood thinners and cholesterol pills to aspirin and ginkgo capsules — a new study warns.
The article says “Virtually every medicine can have side effects, and with so many being used by [...]

Too many pain pills can make migraines worse

New research suggests certain prescription drugs might increase discomfort.
WASHINGTON – Those pain pills you think help your migraines? Take too many and you could make them worse. Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more pain medication. A very unlucky fraction even get what’s called chronic [...]

Early flu season cases are resisting Tamiflu

ATLANTA – The medical arsenal against the flu just got weaker.
Government health officials said Friday that a leading flu medicine, Tamiflu, might not work against all cases of the flu this year. The most common flu bug right now is overwhelmingly resistant to Tamiflu, they said.
The alert is “an early heads-up” for doctors. If current [...]

Medication Nation

When it comes to sickness and disease most Americans don’t BELIEVE they have it in them to heal.  We’ve become a “Medication Nation” as Matt Lauer suggests in this editions clip of the week, taking the fast and easy way out to “feel better” with little to no consideration of the side effects.
The reality is, [...]

C-sections Tied to Higher Asthma Risk.

Natural childbirth somehow stimulates the newborn immune system.  Now they discover c-sections are tied to higher astma risks (along with antibiotic use in the first year of life).  Some moms unfortunately need to undergo this procedure, (most likely because of undiagnosed subluxation) however the vast majority are performed for the sake of CONVENIENCE! Seems everytime [...]

Doctors Dropping Vaccines for Lack of Profit?

Altruism has seen better days.  Now some MD’s are dropping vaccines because they’re losing money on them.  What ever happened to “improving the health of society” and “taking care of the children?”.  Now you know exactly what their motives were all along.  If they really cared, they would have stopped despensing vaccines because of the [...]