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Can Your Genes Impact How You Respond to Meds?

We have all heard of DNA genetic-testing services like 23andMe. After I suffered adverse reactions from the antibiotic Levaquin, I found others who suffered the same fate online. Several...

Do Your Psychiatric Drugs Keep You Up at Night?

If you take a medication for a psychiatric condition, you may have experienced troubled sleep — insomnia, daytime sleepiness, or any number of sleep-related disorders. I have treated patients...

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Kids and Migraines: How to Help

For teens and children with migraines, feeling stressed is a significant migraine trigger -- both during the stressful time and afterward. Those who suffer from migraines need to be...

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The Road to Recovery Means Finding the Right Medicine

I was living in a tunnel vision of dark depression, and there was barely a glimmer of hope at the end of it. That’s how I felt until I...

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What a Successful Health Care System Looks Like

If a core goal of our nation is to have the healthiest population possible, then we need to rethink, regroup, and restore our commitment to health practices and processes...

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Breast Cancer: An Alternative Perspective on Care

One woman's story with breast cancer, learning how cancer grows and discovering alternative methods of treating cancer.

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Is It Time to Stop Taking the Pill?

I started taking the pill when I was in college, not as a method of birth control, but because it was the only thing that worked to quell the...

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Medicines Perpetuate Diagnosis

Medications Perpetuate the Diagnosis: As a registered nurse with a sincere passion for what I do, I’m very frequently in awe of what proper care and the right medications...

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