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251. Generic Medicines By Andy Casasanta
     Generic DrugsGeneric Online Pharmacies started making a big impact on the net since the mid to late 90's. This has allowed the prescription drug buyer to save hundreds with the click of a mouse. Generics really slash the prices on prescription drugs and medications because they do not carry brand names but they are essentially the same drug.As the cost of prescription drugs and medications continue to soar, more and more Americans are choosing Generic Pharmacies to maintain their quality of li…



252. What is Bextra? (FDA Recalled Drug) By Todd Going
     Bextra, also known as valdecoxib, is a prescribed medication used to alleviate the problems associated with arthritis and other inflammation-related conditions. The drug helps reduce the pain of swelling and fever without causing stomach irritation like aspirin.NSAIDs work by blocking a chemical in the body called cycloxgenase. Cylooxgenase-1, or COX-1, shields the stomach from the harsh hydrochloric acid it contains, while COX-2, is found in inflamed tissues and causes the pain of fever, in…



253. The Cox-2 Prescription Painkillers Are Back? By Ian Mason
     This past week, the FDA held a meeting in order to decide what should be done about Merck’s Vioxx and Pfizer’s Bextra and Celebrex. The Food and Drug Administration originally intended to ban these pain medications. However, this was challenged by a series of obstacles.The Cox-2 painkiller prescription medications are back due to popular demand! In spite of the life-threatening side-effects such as heart attacks, many patients feel that the medications have changed their lives for the good.Man…



254. Crack Down On Online Pharmacies By John Cruise
     The U.S. government has been cracking down on online pharmacies in an attempt to stop personal prescription medicines imports by Americans in dire need. Americans overburdened by unreasonably high prices of medicines have been flowing to online pharmacies in an attempt to receive cheaper much needed prescribed medications.The gainers from the governments actions are of course the American medicine manufacturers, the medical insurance companies, which by the way pay much less for the drugs tha…



255. Heart Disease: The Dangers Of Coronary Heart Attack And How To Avoid It By I-key Benney
     What is a coronary heart attack?Are you at the risk of a coronary heart attack?Here are some insights to help you...A heart attack happens when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle itself (the myocardium) is severely reduced or even stopped entirely.The medical term for a heart attack is myocardial infarction.The reduction or stoppage of blood supply happens when one or more of the coronary arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle is blocked.This may be caused by the buildup of pla…



256. The Basic First Aid for Child Care Programs By Carla Ballatan
     We cannot help but accept the fact that children do get into trouble and sometimes emergencies when they are left in childcare programs. We just have to pray that most injuries sustained are minor such as cuts, scrapes, bruises, among others.But when serious injuries and emergencies do happen, caregivers and childcare program administrators should have the proper and basic planning and first aid needed in times such as these.A safer and well maintained establishment and facility. As most injur…



257. Warning: Taking Bextra May Harm Your Health By Dr. Joseph Mercola
     Another Vioxx-like occurrence may be on the rise, as warnings about Pfizer's arthritis pain drug, Bextra, continue to mount.According to a study of more than 1,500 patients who had previously undergone cardiac surgery, those who were treated for pain with Bextra were more likely to have heart and blood clotting problems than those who received no drug at all.Associated problems included:* Stroke* Heart attack* Blood clots in the lung* Deep vein blood clots in the legRegardless of the fact that…



258. A Fresh Start Plan for People With Neck Pain! By Nathan Wei
     “If you have to deal with chronic neck pain, it can be a real struggle. I know… because I’ve had to do it myself,” states Dr. Nathan Wei, a board-certified rheumatologist and Clinical Director of The Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center of Maryland.How arthritis causes neck pain... The neck is an interesting structure. It's made up of 7 bones stacked on top of each other. Each is separated from each other in the front by fibrous cushions called discs, and from each other in the back by special…



259. Kids and Medication Part I By Lance Winslow
     We have all talked a lot about the problems in our educational system, about latchkey kids, about teacher turnover (50 percent of teachers quitted within the first five years on the job), psychologists over prescribing medications such as Prozac and Ritalin with our friends and families. We can all foresee a terrible problem in the future because we are feeding these drugs to kids under the age of six, their brains have not been fully formed yet and these drugs and their predecessors and compe…



260. Medical Error Crisis By Anna Henningsgaard
     The unfortunate truth about medical errors is that they plague the poor and uninsured, reflecting the great medical inequality in our country. For those who do not consider medical errors to be a problem, consider this: medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans every year. This reflects the fact that medical errors kill more people per year than breast cancer, AIDS, or motor vehicle accidents. Doctors complain of inflated medical malpractice insurace costs, but medication-related…



261. Viga Lies Cause Potential Fatalities By Margaret Wommack
     Viga and Viga for Women is a dietary supplement sold OTC and via the internet that marketed itself not as a prescription drug but as a dietary supplement pill. It was a dietary supplement version of Viagra, which is a drug for erectile dysfunction. Viga was supposed to be natural thus eliminating the dangerous or unpleasant side effects of the prescription drug Viagra. Viagra cannot be purchased over the counter because it is a prescription drug containing the ingredient sildenafil. However, s…



262. Flu Season By Melissa Allen
     Well, it's that time of the year again! Just last week alone four of my clients were out sick with the flu, and at least another four friends suffered the same fate. Unfortunately, flu season isn't over yet, and that means you stand a good chance of being exposed to the virus at some point.While a lot of people will go to the gym no matter how sick they feel rather than miss a single workout, this is not recommended. However, it is recommended that you maintain your health throughout the entir…



263. Environmental Medicine By Robert Baird
     Our modern preservatives and other pollutants like yellow dye no. 5 have caused bodily responses which detract or impair the natural process of our system. It is a serious issue that science may argue about while we all suffer major impacts. One of the hardest things to measure or gauge is the impact on the soul and brain through hormonal and thalami responses which we touched upon in the Third Eye/Thalami research. Some competent doctors claim a correlation with mental illnesses as the histam…



264. Spin Control: What to Do When You're Dizzy By Gary Cordingley
     Dizzy Dean, the great baseball pitcher of the 1930s-1940s, once quipped, "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."That is as good an analogy as any in describing what often happens to patients with the symptom of dizziness. They see a doctor, get an MRI scan (the x-ray of the 21st century) and nothing is found.To extend the baseball theme, patients sometimes complete a triple-play—going from family doctor to ear specialist to neurologist. And when all is said and done, none of the doc…



265. Toenail Fungus: Treatment and Prevention By Christine Dobrowolski, DPM
     A thick, yellowish nail with splotchy white areas is a classic presentation for a fungal toenail. In the early stages the toenail is only slightly discolored, or slightly thickened. In the late stages the nail can become very thick and has a tendency to "grow up" more than in grows out. The nail will be very discolored, typically dark yellow-brown and will start to change shape and crumble. In some cases the nail becomes very loose and many will lose the nail, only for it to regrow with the fu…



266. Does Drug Advertising Lead to Unnecesary Presciptions By Craig Wilcox
     If you haven’t seen the prescription drugs ads on television, you must not have a television. They’re everywhere, and they’re convincing millions of people who may not need medication to "talk to their doctor" about getting fixed up with free samples.The mark of a drug ad seems to be the overt caution they seem to be recommending for anyone using their products. Fill in the blank here: if you have an _________ for more than four hours, please seek immediate medical attention.But these overt …



267. At Last! Good News For Gout Sufferers! By Nathan Wei
     Gout, an arthritis affliction with its roots in antiquity, has not always been easy to treat. The traditional medicines employed for gout have been non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), colchicines, probenicid (Benemid), and allopurinol (Zyloprim).Unfortunately, while effective, these drugs have their drawbacks. NSAIDS cause gastrointestinal complications; colchicines has been linked to severe neurologic and gastrointestinal problems; probenecid cannot be used in patients who do n…



268. Aleve, Vioxx, Celebrex, and Bextra: What You Need To Know About Arthritis Pain Medications By R.L. Fielding
     Recent controversy about the safety of pain medications for arthritis has left patients and health care professionals alike confused about which medications are safe to use. In fact, a recent survey by the Boston-based Rippe Lifestyle Institute indicated that many people with arthritis are suffering unnecessarily because they have stopped or reduced their use of pain relievers due to confusion about which drugs are considered safe.The survey also showed that now, more than ever, those with ar…



269. The P Value And Its Significance By Quoc Nguyen
     When diversifying an investment portfolio, one needs to consider investing in the healthcare industries. Pharmaceutical companies that have strong pipelines of investigation drugs have strong growth speculations. In addition to examining its pipelines, one also needs to be able to evaluate the results of its clinical trials. When a news program reports the results of a clinical trial for a new drug to be “statistically significant,” what does it mean? And how did they come up with that concl…



270. Be Wary of Discount Prescription Drug Cards By Stephen Dayton
     The newest thing in the American medical savings game is prescription drug cards, where users pay a monthly fee (anywhere from $10-100, approximately) that nets them discounts at their local medical establishment. Doctors, pharmacists, dentists and even hospitals are all jumping on the discount prescription drug card bandwagon.And although they sound like an excellent idea to most consumers, these discount prescription drug cards do carry some risks. This article will detail what to look out f…



271. Powerful Arthritis Pain Relief For All Of Us By Jim Dowler
     When you ask what arthritis is, professinals will tell you it's inflammation of one or more joints. But you know it better as pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, and/or a diminished range of motion of those joints! It's estimated that over 50 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other related conditions.Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. Osteo arthritis seems to come with the wear and tear of aging and affects nearly three-quarters o…



272. What's a Good Arthritis Medicine for Me, Doctor? By Nathan Wei
     Pain is the body’s warning signal that something is wrong. If the pain is due to overuse or arthritis there are many things to consider. In all likelihood, one of the first things a person will reach for is an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medicine.Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines work by blocking the synthesis of cyclooxygenase, the enzyme responsible for the production of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. The two different pathways that are blocked are COX-1 and COX-2.Despite…



273. Benefits of a Virtual Top Doctor Consultant By Hugo Gallegos
     Looking for the best doctor to suite your medical needs can be a problem, especially if you don’t have time and you need to research the doctor’s credentials. Whether you’re in urgent need of help, or just need a second opinion, I will show you how to access all the information you need – through the Internet’s Virtual Top Doctor Consultant.Information on Doctors’ Credentials Many organizations house comprehensive credentials, such as licensure, status and so forth. These organizations incl…



274. The 7 Most Dangerous Mistakes You Can Make When You See a Doctor for Arthritis! By Nathan Wei
     1. Seeing a doctor who’s not board-certified or a doctor who isn’t really an arthritis specialist. A lot of doctors will tell you they’re “board-eligible.” That’s nonsense! What “board-eligible” means is that they did the training for the specialty but either haven’t taken or- heaven forbid- failed the examination for board-certification. Don’t trust your health to one of those doctors. And worse yet, some specialists don’t pass on the first attempt. They keep taking the board exam over …



275. Arizona Drug Rehab: Finding Help in Arizona By Jeff Lakie
     The state of Arizona has one of the worst drug problems in the United States. Historically and currently, the state is known as a transhipment location for a variety of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and marijuana, which are imported from other countries. As a result, these and other drugs are widely available in the state, and their abuse is common. There are probably few states that require the presence of rehabilitation centers as this one does - thankfully Arizona drug rehab centers are …



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