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Health & Wellness News tagged with prescriptions

The FDA Stam of Approval: What Does It Really Mean?
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, FDA, Food & Drug administration, pharmaceuticals, drug information, prescriptions, remedies )

RC
- 433 days ago - nytimes.com
Am informative explanation of the role of the FDA in both prescription and over-the-counter drug dispensation. Learn more about what they do - and don't do.
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Prescription Drugs: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Health & Wellness  (tags: prescription drugs, prescriptions, overdoses, drugs, drug deaths )

RC
- 496 days ago - cnn.com
Drug deaths from incorrect dosages, mixing prescriptions and other mistakes are causing a dramatic rise in deaths.
39 comments
Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, health, news, medicine, healthcare, drugs, prescriptions, U.S., pharmaceutical, advertisement, development, FDA, government )

Dr Kathi
- 647 days ago - zmescience.com
More money is spent on advertisement than research by U.S. pharma companies... "U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4% of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4% for research and development...of US domestic sales of US $235.4 billion [2004].
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Your Doctor, Your Dealer: Legal Drug Craze Is New Killer
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, addiction, prescriptions, pain killers, antidepressants, sleeping pills, doctors, medicine, pharmacies )

Blue
- 665 days ago - guardian.co.uk
More Americans fall to prescriptions than street drugs, research shows.
10 comments
Why Grapefruit Affects Some Drugs
Health & Wellness  (tags: prevention, protection, risks, health, interaction, prescriptions )


- 671 days ago - webmd.com
from WebMD, Scientists Spot Natural Chemicals in Grapefruit That Raise Drug's Effect
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Is Diabetes Caused By Pharmaceuticals?
Health & Wellness  (tags: diabetes, doctors, prescriptions )


- 816 days ago - newstarget.com
The number of people becoming diabetic is increasing dramatically. According to Express Scripts, in the U.S. it doubled in 5-19 year olds between 2002 and 2005. In a study for the Financial Times, Medco found that type 2 diabetes more than doubled in...
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Death By Prescription
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, doctors, healthcare, prevention, drugs, prescriptions )

Emmanuel
- 946 days ago - abcarticledirectory.com
Last week the World Health Organization released new guidelines for patient safety. Upwards of 100,000 people in the United States were dying each year from errors made by health care professionals.
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