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- Category: ADHD
- Category: Alternative Medicines
- Category: Alternative Therapy
- Herbal Supplements: 3 Risks for Women
- Surprising Side Effects of Essential Oils
- Olympic Athletes Excel at Their Sports but Are Susceptible to Unproven Alternative Therapies
- Chlorophyll: TikTok Fad Offers Questionable Benefits
- A Break From Breathlessness: How Singing Helped Me Through Long Covid
- PTSD Treatment: A Multi-Pronged Approach
- 6 Alternatives to Erectile Dysfunction Drugs
- Playlists and Podcasts to Power Your Next Walk or Workout
- Whey, Soy, Pea: Are Protein Supplements Right for Me?
- Acupuncture Can Help Alleviate Pain, Nausea, Insomnia and More
- TikTok Your Way to Fitness
- Can Cannabis or CBD Mess With My Meds?
- The Many Ways to Manage Migraine Treatment
- Say Bye to Inflammation and Hi to Healthy Recipes, on Instagram
- Reducing Migraines by Reducing Screen Time is Possible, Even in a Pandemic
- 6 Things to Know About Ketamine for Depression
- Lifestyle Changes and Asthma
- ‘It’s a Gamble:’ St. John’s Wort, Depression and Drug Interactions
- Relying Too Much on Complementary Therapies Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
- How to Kick Insomnia Without Turning to Pills
- Petition to Allow Greater Research of Marijuana
- Why You Should Consider Acupuncture to Treat Depression
- Medicine-Free Methods for Easing Indoor Allergies
- Episode 20: Acupuncture & Traditional Medicine Working Together
- Psychotherapy, Not Sleeping Pills, Best for Insomnia
- Pros & Cons of Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Acupuncture: Fast Facts
- Category: Antibiotics and Antivirals
- Heatstroke: A Risky Side Effect of Many Drugs
- More Than a Sunburn: Drugs Can Make Your Skin More Sensitive to Sun
- What to Do If You Have Allergic Reactions to Antibiotics?
- Is New Flu Drug Xofluza Worth Taking?
- Nearly Half of Antibiotic Prescriptions Given Without Infection Diagnosis
- Floxed! The Painful, Life-Lasting Effects of Some Antibiotics
- Category: Antidepressants
- Category: Antidepressants and Anxiety Meds
- Can I Stop Taking My Antidepressant or Antianxiety Meds?
- The Right Way to Get Off Antidepressants
- Bipolar Disorder: Fast Facts
- Do SSRIs Increase the Risk of Suicide in Those Diagnosed with Clinical Depression?
- Effective Treatments for Fibromyalgia Sufferers
- Coping with the Side Effects of Antidepressants
- Anxiety Meds: Options, Side Effects & Alternatives
- The Link Between Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Common Meds
- Nasal Spray for Depression? Not So Fast.
- 5 Non-Pharmacological Treatments for Depression
- Symptom or Side Effect? Why Doctors Too Often Choose A Over B
- Concerns About Using Your Antidepressant Long-Term? Talk to Your Doctor
- Can Using Dumbbells Help Alleviate Depression?
- 5 Drug Classes That May Cause Depression
- How Antidepressants Robbed Me of a Year of My Life
- The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman’s Harrowing Journey With Antidepressants
- Are Antidepressants Any Better Than a Placebo?
- Quick Hits: Ketamine for Depression, Non-Addictive Opioid, & More
- St. John’s Wort Effective For Depression, But Without SSRI Side Effects
- Antidepressants: New Risks of Side Effects
- SSRI Antidepressants Linked to Low Birth Weight, Prematurity
- Drugs in Pregnancy Part 6: Antidepressants
- Antidepressants’ Problematic Side Effects
- Q&A: Scott Stossel and His Age of Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder: A Q&A with Dr. Candida Fink
- Side effects of antidepressants 2-4 weeks in
- Depression, Drugs and Guts
- Category: Anxiety and Depression
- Are Changes in Your Blood Pressure a Side Effect of Medicine?
- Could TMS Be Among Your Best Drug-Free Treatments for Depression?
- Anxiety Is a Surprisingly Common Side Effect of Many Medicines
- Suicidal Ideation: It May be Your Medications
- 5 Surprising Ways Alcohol Harms Your Body
- Anxiety Medications Fast Facts
- 4 Drugs That Interact with Anxiety Meds
- Therapy, Meditation, Sleep and Exercise Can Help Lessen Anxiety
- 7 Natural Remedies to Relieve Anxiety
- Light Therapy – is it a thing?
- Feeling Anxious? Depressed? Check Your Meds
- Food & Anxiety
- Is Club Drug Answer for Treatment-Resistant Depression?
- Mediterranean Diet’s Newest Benefit: Curbing Depression
- Can Cannabis Control Depression?
- 10 Tips to Help Patients Going Through Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
- Combining Migraine Meds With Antidepressants Safe
- Is Kratom Really As Dangerous As the FDA Makes It Out to Be?
- Researchers Find Way to Counteract Weight Gain Associated with Antipsychotic Medications
- Some Blood Pressure Meds May Boost Risk for Mood Disorders
- Prostate Cancer Treatment May Increase Depression Risk
- How Meditation Helps My Patients Heal
- Taking Antipsychotic Drugs While Pregnant May Harm Newborns: Study
- The Adverse Emotional and Interpersonal Effects of Antidepressants
- Statins and Depression: too much of a good thing?
- Category: Aternative Therapies
- Melt Into Deep Sleep, Using YouTube’s Meditations
- Can Yoga Help You Reduce Your Medications for Common Medical Conditions?
- Kids, Stress, and Migraines: How to Help
- Stuck with Statins? Try a Plant-Based Diet to Cut Back
- Insomnia? Skip the Meds for Other Therapies Without Side Effects
- 3 Types of Exercise to Boost Your Immune System for Post-Social Distancing Living
- Is Weed Medicine? Here’s Where We’re at With the Evidence for Medicinal Cannabis Going Into 2020
- Indoor Allergies? Plants Might Be the Answer
- Is Therapeutic Massage Right for Me?
- Why Taking Herbal Supplements During Cancer Treatment Can Be Dangerous
- Can Supplements Have Harmful Side Effects?
- Many Parents Unaware of Alternatives to Opioids for Pain
- Can Exercise Work as Well as Medication at Lowering Blood Pressure?
- Medical Marijuana Has ‘Limited’ Effectiveness in Multiple Sclerosis
- Marijuana-Derived Medication Gets DEA OK
- The New Prescription for Cancer: Exercise
- Born Without 2 Legs: How Nubby The Therapy Dog Helps Others Cope
- Medical Marijuana May Lead to Fewer Opioid Rxs
- Can We Answer Questions About Marijuana Once and For All?
- ‘Doctor, I Hurt’ – Food as the Ultimate Prescription for Pain Relief
- Medical Marijuana May Curb Use of Prescription Drugs
- Got IBS? Try Dietary, Lifestyle Modifications Before Drugs
- For Back Pain, Try Non-Drug Measures First
- Will Stem Cell Tests Predict Your Drug’s Side Effects?
- Episode 17: 6 Foods that Help – and Hurt – Libido
- Listen When Your Body Speaks
- 5 Alternative Treatments for Colds and Flu: Do They Work?
- Some Supplements Contain Rx Drugs and Unapproved Ingredients
- Does Medical Marijuana Cut Down on Prescription Drug Use?
- Treating ADHD Without Drugs
- Put Down the Purple Pill: 11 Ways to Ease Heartburn Naturally
- 8 Foods to Eat (or Avoid) to Cure Headaches
- Which is more effective: drugs or lifestyle change?
- Steroids No Better Than Placebo for Sciatica Pain
- Chinese Herbs – Not Rx Meds – to Treat My Crohn’s Disease
- Food as Medicine: Osteoarthritis
- Penn Study: Exercise Boosts Tumor-fighting Ability of Chemotherapy
- Can Therapy Animals Decrease Medication Use?
- Yoga Fast Facts
- Which Type of Yoga Is Right for You?
- Natural vs Healthy vs Organic – Know What You’re Buying
- Category: Autoimmune
- Can an Opioid Addiction Drug Treat Autoimmune Disorders?
- Monitoring Crucial Side Effects of PrEP
- SAMe: The Arthritis Supplement You’ve Never Heard Of
- Crohn’s Treatment Chart
- Treating Crohn’s Disease: A Balancing Act
- Food as Medicine: Celiac Disease
- Doctors: Side Effects of HIV Medicines Can Be Managed
- A Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs
- Meds That Mess With Your Thyroid
- Lifestyle Changes and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Dietary Changes, Not Methotrexate, Kept My RA Under Control
- Weird Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy Cause Confusion
- What You Should Know Before Taking Psoriasis Drugs
- Some Cancer Drugs May Boost Arthritis Risk
- Birth Control Pill May Triple Risk Of Crohn’s Disease In Women With Family History Of The Condition
- Recognizing and Addressing Antiepileptic Drug Side Effects
- Category: Blogs
- 3 Ways You May Be Overdiagnosed
- The Whole Truth About Medicines
- What to Do With Leftover Prescription Pain Pills
- Why I Changed My Mind About Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine
- Pfizer and Moderna COVID Vaccine Comparison
- Medicines Perpetuate Diagnosis
- My COVID-19 Antibody Test Left Me With More Questions
- The Vitamins and Minerals to Boost Your Immune System
- Testing Drugs on Sick People – A COVID Question
- Coronavirus: It’s Causing Heart Problems
- Three Top Doctor’s Opinions On Coronavirus Clinical Trials
- Is Social Isolation Really Necessary for Coronavirus?
- Coronavirus Cures: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Abilify’s Digital Tracker
- Men, Breast Cancer and Clinical Trial Fairness
- Warfarin, A-Fib, Lavender Oil and Dopamine Agonist Medicine
- Which Would You Choose?
- Breast Cancer, Osteoporosis and Cardio Health
- Diabetes, “Z” drugs and Music Therapy
- Xeljanz, Acupuncture for Angina and Aspirin
- Fosamax Fractures Patient Protections
- A New Look for MedShadow
- What’s Next for the Fosamax Case in the Supreme Court?
- Which Drug Side Effects Should Your Doctor Tell You About?
- Is Right-to-Try the Best Path for Experimental Meds?
- In Defense of Pain
- Spit Happens
- Now We Know: Endocrine Disruptors Affect Grandchildren
- What Doesn’t Work for Arthritis
- Ending the Insulin Crisis: Marches Advocate Cutting Medication Costs for Diabetics
- 5 Keys to Living Longer — and Better
- Have an ADHD Kid? 5 Tips to Use Less Ritalin and More Parenting
- Barbara Bush’s Last Gift: Educating Patients About ‘Comfort Care’
- The Cough After the Cold
- Which Medicines Are Safe in Pregnancy?
- Protect Yourself From Overprescribing
- Slow Medicine vs. Fast Medicine
- Moving DES From One Family’s Tragedy Into the National Spotlight
- Lung Cancer Screening Isn’t for Everyone
- What Your Doc Knows About Supplements…And You May Not
- Supplements Scare Me — They Should Scare You, Too
- The Problem With Medical Device Approvals
- Restasis: When Advertising Outweighs Research – and Common Sense
- Black-ish Hits a Sour Note When It Comes to Diabetes
- Attacking AA as Irrational? That’s Irrational
- A Nurse’s Eye View of the Emergency Room & Some Tips from an ER Doc
- Listen Up! 3 Hits and 1 Loser in the Podcast World
- The Need to Pee – Tips and Tricks for Men
- Can BPA Cause Heart Attacks?
- The Doctor of Deceit
- Change Your Clocks – Then Check Your Meds
- A Trail of Clues to a New Diabetes Drug
- The FDA’s Better Side Effects Database
- A Flu Med with Meager Benefits
- 2 Books & a Podcast: Facts, Fun & Fallacies
- How Pharma Influences Some Patient Advocacy Groups
- Warning: Drug Ads May Cause Confusion
- Alone and Afraid at 4 AM
- Can Diabetics Train to Use Less Glucose-Lowering Medication?
- A New Opioid Deterrent Falls Short
- Crying Over Dry Eyes
- Let’s Answer the Questions About Marijuana
- Mammogram Pros and Cons (Yes, There Are Cons)
- Act Now! Insurance May Not Cover Birth Control Much Longer
- Can 6 Questions Diagnose Adult ADHD? Probably Not.
- What Doctors Know and Patients Don’t
- Can You Trust a New Drug?
- Lessons For the Future, From 60 Years Ago
- Can Pregnant Women Be Trusted to Make Their Own Medical Decisions?
- Who’s Responsible When a Generic Drug Kills?
- Why Drugs Should Take a Long Time to Get to Market
- From Snip to Tear
- A Dose of Health Care for Haiti’s Poor
- Weighing Risks and Benefits on an FDA Advisory Committee
- What’s Wrong with Drug Importation?
- Best Case, Worst Case: Shared Decision-Making in Health Decisions
- Finding Your Own Path to Health
- What Actually Works in Fighting a Cold or Flu?
- Some Prescription Meds are Less Effective Than OTC or Alternative Treatments
- Can You Trust Homeopathic Medications?
- Are New Cancer Drugs Really Medical Miracles?
- Dietary Supplements: Science or Hype?
- ‘My Drug Dealer Was a Doctor’
- Speak Up: Patient Preferences in Medical Care
- Is Sex More Like Dancing or Digestion?
- Is That C-Section Really Necessary?
- One Doctor’s Story Touches Close to Home
- 5 Common Drug Classes for Seniors to Avoid
- Ick! Head Lice
- The Risks of Taking Statins
- Are Drug Ads Good for You?
- Pot Research: Why It Matters
- Vaccine Risks vs Benefits
- Welcome MedShadow TV!
- Putting Pressure on Breast Cancer Fatigue
- The Price of Beauty
- How Pharma Kickbacks & Marketing Hide the Truth About Drugs
- Be the Boss of Your Medicine
- Live Longer at What Cost?
- Should You Avoid Doctors to Live Longer?
- What Drug Ads Should Be Telling Us (But Aren’t)
- A Glass of Cheer Can Impair Your Medicine
- A ‘Viagra’ For Love?
- Who’s to Blame for Addiction?
- New Research on ADHD Meds
- It’s Not Just Zika: 5 Drugs That Can Affect a Fetus
- Why Don’t Side Effects Scare Us?
- Healthcare Simplified
- Do Warnings Work?
- Why Are We Wasting Research $$$?
- Spying on Cancer
- Are Statins Overprescribed?
- New from Frontline: ‘Supplements and Safety’
- Don’t Read These Articles
- Should Your Doc Prescribe Opioids?
- Questions for FDA Commisssioner Nominee
- Do You Believe in Magic?
- Pregnancy, Medicine & Risk
- 4 Crowdshare Drug Sites: Pros & Cons
- Free Speech vs. Safe Drugs
- News that Is Making Me Crazy
- Do Rare Side Effects Really Happen?
- Addyi: The Morning After
- Which Fear Do Parents Respond To?
- 4 Reasons Side Effects Happen
- What Would You Do For A Healthy Baby?
- Separation of Diagnosis and Profit
- Pharma Payola = Jail Time for All
- Too Many Tests?
- The Great Chocolate Diet Hoax
- Patients Are Consumers
- Off-Label Prescribing – Danger or Lifesaver ?
- The Problem with Weed
- Elisabeth Bing, ‘She did it!’
- Unsure about Essure
- Chin-Fat Haters Rejoice
- Radiation Damage — What a Surprise
- The Best Health Value = Pharmacists
- Why a Women’s Health Conference?
- Want Better Health? Ask More Questions
- What’s in My Supplement?
- J&J’s at Fault & Docs Deserve Blame Too
- Radiation Redux
- Common Drugs Can Cause Dementia
- 5 Articles from Our Must-Read List
- Why Care About Endocrine Disruptors?
- ‘Cake’ Makes Addiction Recovery Look Like a Cake-Walk
- Will The FDA Kill Off E-Cigs? That’s Not the Question
- Pain Docs Warn Against Opioids
- Can Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
- MedShadow Partners with DES Action
- Ahhhhh Choo – The Ethics of Germs
- 4 Quotes to Spark Conversations and Action
- Double Trouble with Acetaminophen
- Bright Kids, Dark Future?
- The Future of RA Treatments?
- National Drug Take-Back Day: Sept 27th
- India Puts Health Before Money
- Vicodin vs. Ice Pack
- Can Alcohol Abuse Drugs Save Lives?
- Salt in the Wound, Part 2
- Smoking and the Happiness Quotient
- The Side Effects of Side Effects
- Dear Medical System: I Have 5 Questions for You
- This Would Be Funny If It Weren’t True
- 3 Great Ideas
- Wired by Cell Phones Before Birth?
- Medicating the Genius Out of Our Kids
- Boundaries: Navigating the Gulf Between Tests and Treatment
- How to Shoot Yourself in the Fitbit
- E-Cigs Hazy Truths
- Vertigo Mea Culpa
- Denver Post: Drug firms used dangerous tactics to drive sales to treat kids
- Do You Really Need that Test?
- JAMA Refuses to Retract Paper on Testosterone Risks
- The ‘Big, Bad Buzz’ of Caffeine
- Weed is not like Wine
- Update: The Low-T Story: Hunting for the Truth, Part 2
- What We Don’t Know About Marijuana
- The Low T Story: Hunting for the Truth
- Project Deceptive? Lunesta Claims Short of Reality
- Mammogram Confusion
- Battling a Disease vs Battling Addiction
- Medicare, Doctors and Fraud – Throw the Over-Prescribers Out
- 5 Ideas to Make Prescription Drugs Safer
- Can Her Body Cure Breast Cancer?
- New MS Drug Fails Risk vs. Benefit Analysis
- Obesity is a Puzzle We Need to Solve
- Statin Confusion, Worry & a Little Anger
- The Tipping Point of Addiction vs. Pain Management
- A Gathering Place for Side Effect Info
- J&J walk of shame
- Online pharmacies – Be sure, be safe
- Wait before taking that Z-pack!
- Prescription drugs: generic vs. brand name
- Med Device Apps: Patient as Doctor
- Old age isn’t for sissies
- 10 Reasons to Love Pharmacists!
- Are men and women equal?
- How to Sell More Product? Promise It Will Make You Sick
- Malaria vs. Antimalarial Drugs
- FDA Requiring Long-term Research of OxyContin Use
- Think only football players get concussions? Think again!
- Protect the Children, FDA!
- ‘Natural’ weight loss herb contains unnatural drug
- 3 Drugs you’ll have problems leaving
- The Benadryl Risk-Benefit Quandry
- Reefer Madness
- Close Call: Avoiding a Malaria Drug with Scary Side-Effects
- Different side effects on seniors – who knew?
- What Happened?
- Nocebo – I shall harm
- Gee – what is carrageenan?
- Smart or Selfish? Marketing Lipitor
- Hot flashes = hot market for Noven
- HPV vaccine and the Japanese question
- Mild Brain Trauma Looks Like Alzheimer’s
- Salt in the Wound
- A Letter from Su
- Crack Babies and the Risks of Not Knowing
- Testosterone Usage Soars: When Doctors Relent to Patient Pressure
- Does Anesthesia Cause Dementia in the Elderly?
- Ahhhh Chooo! Allergy Medicines
- Kids and Zits
- What Are the Long-term Side Effects? For Most Drugs We Just Don’t Know
- Insurance Works, Health Care Doesn’t – Lessons from the Oregon Health Study
- Sleeping Through the Alarm
- Your Opinion
- What to Believe
- Health, Not Health Care is the Goal
- Breast Cancer Blockers – tough choices for those at high risk
- With Side Effects, the Consumer Is on Her Own
- IVF Babies + Mystery Cancer – is history repeating itself?
- Kate’s Condition
- Don’t Get Fooled
- Statins Often Tolerated on the Second Try
- Obesity as a side effect, not an enemy
- Who Pays for the Profit on Drugs?
- Category: Ask The Pharmacist
- The Best Way to Treat Heat Rash According to a Doctor
- When Side Effects Prevail
- Follow the Simple Instructions – Or Else
- Can I Cut Down on the Number of Drugs I Take?
- Using MedShadow to Become Better Informed About Your Meds
- A Drug I Am Taking is Being Recalled. Should I Freak Out?
- What You Should Know About Taking Diabetes Meds
- Why It’s Important to Take All Your Medications as Directed
- Might Supplements I Take Interact With My Prescription Medications?
- Is That Symptom a Drug Side Effect…Or Something Else?
- I’m Starting on a Blood Pressure Drug. What Should I Know?
- So, Your Doctor Wants You to Take a Statin. What Are the Risks?
- Zzz…How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep?
- Who’s Minding Your Meds? (Part 2)
- Who’s Minding Your Meds? (Part 1)
- Runny Nose, Sore Throat and Coughing: How Should I Treat Cold Symptoms?
- Don’t Want to Get a Flu Shot? You Should Reconsider
- Deprescribing: Beginning the Process (Part 2)
- Deprescribing: What Is It and How Can You Benefit From It? (Part 1)
- What Are the Best Treatments for Bug Bites?
- What’s the Best Way to Treat Motion Sickness?
- Category: First Person
- Can Your Genes Impact How You Respond to Meds?
- The Road to Recovery Means Finding the Right Medicine
- What a Successful Health Care System Looks Like
- Breast Cancer: An Alternative Perspective on Care
- Why I Decided to Use HRT
- Breast Implants: Should They Be Banned?
- Restrictions on Opioids Lead to My Husband’s Suicide
- Our Bodies, Ourselves and DES Action: 40 Years of Partnership
- No One Is Immune… Woody’s Story Could Be Yours
- The FDA Has It Wrong on Kratom: How the Herb is Helping People Like Me
- The Dark Side of Medications
- I Got a Flu Shot, and So Should You
- Can a Pill Prevent Breast Cancer? For Some Women, the Answer May Be Yes
- Resurgence of Measles, Pertussis Fueled by Vaccine Refusals
- All in This Together: Why I Vaccinate My Kids
- Does Every Cancer Patient Need Neulasta?
- ‘Pink Viagra’? Why We Shouldn’t Rush to ‘Fix’ Women’s Bodies
- Questioning or Pestering Your Doc?
- Nasty Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
- With Benadryl, a Murky Risk-Benefit Analysis
- Category: Health Buzz
- Can virtual reality help people with depression?
- Should You Take Probiotics?
- What You Eat Can Impact Your Mental Health
- Pharmaceutical Companies Need Medicare for All
- US Health Care System Not Meeting Needs of Its Patients
- Heartburn Drug, Broken Bones and Pharma Marketing: The Whistleblower
- 6 Things To Know About Your Over-the-Counter Medications
- OxyContin Maker Eyed ‘Attractive’ Anti-Addiction Market
- Why You May Want To Think Twice Before Getting a Knee Replacement
- Is There a Safe Amount of Drinking Over the Holidays?
- MedShadow’s Top 10 Stories of 2018
- The Risks of More Older Adults Using Medical Marijuana
- Why You Should Be Skeptical About Memory Supplements
- Mac Miller Overdose Shows Fentanyl’s Deadly Power
- The Troubling Marketing Behind a Prescription Fish Oil Pill
- How to Make Sure the Drugs You Take Are Safe and Effective
- Let’s Get Real About Antidepressant Side Effects
- How Antidepressant Side Effects Make You Rethink the ‘Good Life’
- Why Hospitalized Patients Need an Advocate
- How Best to Quit Smoking
- Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women
- Opioid Makers, Blamed for Overdose Epidemic, Cut Back on Marketing Payments to Doctors
- Is There a Link Between Statins and ALS?
- How Modern Medicine is a Threat to Public Health
- Treating Children with Depression: How Will History Judge Us?
- Levaquin Turned Me Into ‘Frankenwoman’
- Why You Should Get a Shingles Vaccine
- What’s the Best Medicine for Brain Health?
- Less Invasive Test Than Pap Smear May Be Appropriate For Many Women
- A Thoughtful Self-Portrait of Life as a Brain Surgeon
- Do Not Take Supplements on Blind Faith
- When Should You NOT Get Preventive Care Services?
- Should You Take Vitamins?
- One in 7 Older Adults Experience Harmful Drug Side Effects
- Pharma Profits from Patenting OTC Drugs
- Safety Isn’t Always First When the FDA Approves Medical Devices
- Are Disease Advocacy Groups Industry Fronts?
- Shared decision-making about health care can mean greater patient satisfaction
- How Young Is Your Heart?
- FDA backlog keeps generics from coming to market
- Category: Health Pulse
- Scott Gottlieb’s FDA Legacy
- Are Consumers Getting the Message About Risks in Drug Ads?
- 3 Super Bowl-Watching Health Tips
- Could the FDA Be Doing More to Curb Teen E-Cig, Vaping Use?
- Has Government Shutdown Impacted Drug Safety?
- Why It’s Time to Give the FDA Power to Regulate Supplements
- 2018: A MedShadow and FDA Year in Review
- If You Take Supplements, Lower Expectations of What They Can Do
- How Patients Could Be Harmed If Kratom is Banned
- Why Donate to MedShadow on #GivingTuesday?
- Only You Can Decide If a Drug’s Risk is Acceptable
- Recap: Raising Awareness About the Side Effects of Medicines
- Can You Trust Genetic Tests for Meds?
- Why You Should Care About Side Effects
- Why Isn’t the FDA Tougher on Tainted Supplements?
- Can a Test Take the Guesswork Out of Prescribing Meds?
- Something Fishy: What Pharma News Releases Don’t Tell You
- Dear FDA: Do More When Drugs Have Issues After Approval
- More Older People Use Marijuana – I’m Concerned
- Are New Drugs Real Advances for Patients?
- Is that New Drug Better? Safer? There’s Really No Way to Know
- Use a Critical Eye When Reading Health and Medical Articles
- How Disease Awareness Ads Can Lead to Overtreatment
- Category: Healthy Skeptic
- Beware of New Alzheimer’s Drug, Aduhelm: Although Approved, It Could Be Dangerous
- Cancer-Treating Drugs – And Other Drugs, Too – Can Be Effective at Lower Doses
- Honesty Is the Best Medicine
- What Makes Life Worth Living
- Is Retin-A Safe for Long-term Use?
- Tracking Patients of the COVID-19 Vaccine Needs to Happen
- Makena: Say “No!” To Meds That Don’t Work
- Thanksgiving Plans – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- Family Gatherings During COVID
- 6 Factors to Consider About a COVID-19 Vaccine
- How to Protect Yourself from Medical Errors
- Prescription Checkup – it could save your life
- How Do You Treat Chronic Pain?
- The Lowdown on NSAIDs for Pain
- Why Opioids Are More Dangerous for Seniors
- Should Kate Middleton Take Anti-Nausea Medicine for Morning Sickness?
- Hot Flash from FDA Advisors
- HRT Increases Breast Cancer
- Pregnancy and Flu Shots – a benefit for baby?
- Good for the Mom, Bad for the Baby?
- Aspirin & Skin Cancer
- Hormone Therapy Increases Risk of Gallstones
- High Potency Statins Linked to Kidney Injury
- The Hefty Costs of Side Effects
- 15.9 Months More for Ovarian Cancer Patients
- Early Alert on Side Effects from the Web
- Only Half the Story
- A Cure With a Future?
- No Wine, No Smokes, But Pop a Pill?
- Unnecessary Risk for What Benefit?
- The Atlantic Magazine Questions if ADHD/ADD Meds Work
- Ward Off Dementia, Work It Out
- Why Care About Clinical Trials?
- Too much of a good thing
- 2 Articles on Antibiotics and Weight Gain
- I Want to Trust My Medicines…
- Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy Causes Low IQ in Kids
- Boys on Stimulants Grow More Slowly
- Statins During Chemo Lowers Heart Problems
- Statins May Lower Glioma Risk Over Time
- Testing New Non-Stimulant Drug for ADHD
- Eli Lilly Pays for DES Damages…Again
- Anti-Depressants & Stillbirths, Good News
- New Study on ADHD
- Who Pays for the Profit on Drugs?
- Aspirin and Macular Degeneration Link
- ADHD leads to Struggling as an Adult
- Is ADHD Learned?
- What to Ask in a Doctor Visit
- Does Ritalin lead to drug abuse?
- Finding a Med or Therapy for ADHD is Key
- Kate’s Post Pregnancy Risk
- No red flags on ADHD meds says Prof Klein, NYU
- What are “long-term effects of medicine”?
- Author Ben Goldacre: ‘Medicine is Broken’
- A Positive Long-Term Effect
- Category: Book Review
- Category: Cadiovascular Disease
- Category: Cancer
- Category: Cardiovascular Disease
- How Wildfires Affect Your Health
- About Blood Clots and the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
- Doctors Debate Use of Blood Thinners to Prevent Clots in Women After C-Sections
- ACE Inhibitors in the Time of Coronavirus
- Ways to Lower High Blood Pressure Without Relying on Drugs
- Statins: Need To Know
- Pros and Cons of Aspirin
- AHA: Statin Side Effects Rare, Benefits Outweigh Risks
- Are Statins Overprescribed? For Many, Their Risks May Outweigh Their Benefits
- Category: COVID-19: Updates
- Covid Vaccines for Kids Under 5
- COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effect Tracker
- To Be One in a Million: ‘Who Thinks It’s Going to Be You?’
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- FDA Q&A: How Problem Meds Are Tracked and Reported
- Treating Bipolar Disorder: A Q & A with Dr. Candida Fink, Part 2
- From Ambien to Zithromax: 5 Top Side-Effects Stories of 2013
- Q&A: Sleep and Its Disorders, Part 2 of 2
- Pros and Cons of E-Cigarettes
- Are E-Cigarettes Safe?
- Q&A: Sleep and Its Disorders — Part 1 of 2
- Lifestyle Changes Can Help Control Asthma
- Category: Regenerative Medicine Series
- Category: First Person
- Category: Healthy Skeptic
- Category: Issues Related to Healthcare
- Abortion and Pregnancy from a Health Perspective
- The FDA Says Boo to Black Licorice
- Quick Hits: Interim FDA Head Named, Inactive Ingredients in Drugs and Allergic Reactions & More
- More than 1 Million Medical Device Injury Reports Hidden in FDA Database
- Quick Hits: FDA Chief Resigning, Acne Drug Not Linked to Depression & More
- Quick Hits: Medical Treatment Adverse Event Death Drop and Antidepressant Tapering With Psychotherapy
- Pharma Spending on Drug Ads to Consumers Quadruples Over 20 Years
- Quick Hits: Why Medication Errors Occur, Antidepressant No Help For Stroke Patients & More
- FDA Finds High Levels of Heavy Metals in Kratom Samples
- Many New Drugs Not Adequately Tested in Children
- Talking to Your Pharmacist Can Help Cut Down Your Meds
- Study Questions Safety of Silicone Breast Implants; FDA Disputes Findings
- Deprescribing Form
- Task Force Again Recommends Cervical Cancer Screening
- Drugs Approved More Quickly Have Less Robust Clinical Trials
- Quick Hits: Questions Over Accelerated Approval and Availability of Drugs Under Expanded Access
- Quick Hits: Antipsychotics & Pregnancy, Preemies & Antibiotics, & more
- Quick Hits: ‘Right to Try’ to Become Law, Stop Using Teething Products & More
- Targeted Therapies Could Reduce Side Effects
- Many Clinical Trials Often Absent From Journals
- FDA Issues Warning on Herbal Pain Reliever Kratom
- Quick Hits: MRI Contrast Agent Problem, Homeopathic Drugs Gain More Oversight — and Rattlesnake Pills
- Quick Hits: FDA Recommends Recall of Limbrel, Researchers Develop New Methodology for Discovering 2 Types of Cancer
- FDA Issues Warning on Kratom
- Many Drivers Unaware of Impairment Risk Associated with Rx Meds
- FDA Warns About a Liver Medication After 19 Deaths
- Many Required Postmarketing Studies for New Drugs Never Completed
- Model Organs on Microchips May Predict Drug Side Effects
- Seniors on Many Meds More Likely to Have Falls
- Quick Hits: Withdrawn Leukemia Drug May Return to Market, Device Makers Get Break on Reporting Malfunctions & More
- Medication Errors Making People Ill Skyrocket
- How to Report Side Effects to the FDA
- Quick Hits: Opioid Prescribing Declining, Big Pharma Showers Doctors With Billions & More
- Why an FDA Drug Safety Monitoring System Is Failing
- Adverse Events From Cosmetics Increase, Prompting Calls for More Regulation
- Quick Hits: FDA Approves New Antibiotic, ADHD Med, and Opioid Use in Depressed Patients
- Recent Drug Approval Highlights Less Stringent FDA Criteria
- Faster FDA Approvals = More Drug Safety Problems
- Many New Drugs Experience Postmarket Safety Issues
- FDA Approves First New ALS Drug in More Than 2 Decades
- Episode 22: How to Evaluate Medical Studies
- Scott Gottlieb’s Potential Impact on the FDA as Commissioner
- Quick Hits: 10 Drugs With Potential Safety Issues, EpiPen Recall, and More
- Episode 19: On the Inside When the FDA Assesses an Opioid Delivery Method
- Drug Side Effects Reported to FDA Skyrocket
- Episode 15: The Importance of Diversity in Clinical Trials
- FDA Warns on Anesthetic, Sedative Use in Pregnant Moms and Children
- FDA Speeds Up Availability of New Drug Safety Information
- Episode 12: The 21st Century Cures Act
- Episode 10: Disease Mongering
- It’s a Mistake to Allow Drug Companies to Promote Drugs for Unapproved Uses
- Rx Drug Advertising May Soon Come to Twitter
- Huge Differences in Clinton and Trump Health Care Proposals
- FDA Approves Muscular Dystrophy Drug Despite Questionable Efficacy
- What You Should Know About Off-Label Drug Use
- Quick Hits: Antipsychotic May Treat Chemo Side Effects, Increasing Availability of Opioid Overdose Med, & More
- Including Medication Purpose in Rx Label Makes Better Informed Patients
- ‘Cures’ Legislation is Bad Medicine for Consumers and FDA
- FDA Approves New Rx Drops for Dry Eye Disease
- FDA Warns Against Tablet Splitting to Save Money
- FDA Again Delays Rule on New Safety Warnings for Generic Labels
- 5 Tips for Vaping Safety
- FDA Approves Tresiba
- Adverse drug event data is available: Why isn’t it being used?
- FDA Approves OxyContin For Extremely Sick Kids
- How ‘Medical’ Is Marijuana?
- FDA warns of heart risk for many common pain relievers
- Certain Painkillers Tied to Raised Risk of Death After Stroke
- Dear Pharmacist: Answer to “whys” benefit patients
- Colgate Total Ingredient Linked to Cancer Spotlights FDA Process
- 10 Drugs that may cause memory loss
- Antidepressants could increase diabetes risk
- FDA warns of increased risk of death with IV antibacterial Tygacil ()
- California bills zero in on risky pain pill prescribers
- Antidepressants have no effect on bone loss
- Childhood Obesity and Food Packaging: A Possible Link
- Chemo brain? Why breast cancer patients report cognitive issues
- Dementia Drugs Reduce Heart Attacks
- CAH – Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
- DES (Diethylstilbestrol)
- Category: Media Impact: Guest Articles
- Category: Media Impact: Quoted
- Category: MedShadow TV
- Episode 18: Adult-Onset Asthma
- Safety Check: Bug Repellents
- Managing Indoor Allergies Without Meds
- Episode 21: Weighing the Risks & Benefits of the PSA Test for Prostate Cancer
- Episode 16: The Pros and Cons of Vaping
- Episode 14: The Top Stories of 2016
- Episode 13: The Best Way to Handle Holiday Stress
- Episode 9: Outgrowing Allergies
- Episode 8: Informed Consent
- Episode 7: Treating Lice
- Episode 6: The Beers Criteria
- Episode 5: Pot Research
- Episode 4: Insomnia Drugs
- Episode 3: Placebos as Medicine
- Episode 2: Talking About ‘Right to Try’ Laws
- Episode 1: Talking About Aspire Assist
- Category: Mental Health
- Side Effects of Oral Corticosteroids, and Probiotics May Ease Anxiety
- A Non-Hormonal Contraceptive Gel, HCQ Trials Halted By The WHO, ADHD Linked to Obesity
- Some ADHD Drugs May Increase Psychosis Risk
- FDA Approves First Drug for Postpartum Depression
- Benzodiazepine Prescribing Soars, Prompting Concerns
- ADHD Medications
- Childhood Infections, Antibiotics Use Linked to Mental Disorders
- Seniors That Take Multiple Meds Have Higher Car Crash Risk
- Possible Link Between ADHD Med and Psychotic Symptoms
- Quick Hits: Benzos, Sleep Drugs and Alzheimer’s, New ADHD Med & More
- Long-Term ADHD Stimulant Use Linked to Opioid Use
- Children Who Use Marijuana Have Higher Risk of Psychotic Symptoms
- The 2 Most-Prescribed Drugs in America
- Surge in ADHD Prescriptions Filled by Women
- When Stopping Psychiatric Medication, Doctor Support Often Lacking
- Consumers Wake Up to the Reality of Insomnia Pills
- Starting ADHD Stimulant Meds in Teen Years May Boost Substance Abuse Risk
- Some Young Users of ADHD Drugs Risk Psychotic Side Effects
- Should You Be Worried About The Neurocognitive Side Effects Of The New Cholesterol Drugs?
- Serious Impulse Control Disorders With Dopamine Agonists
- Category: Need to Know
- Category: New Stories
- How to Choose a Safe Sunscreen
- ‘That’s Just Part of Aging’: Long Covid Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors
- What Are Uterine Fibroids?
- The dietary supplement you’re taking could be tainted with prescription medications
- Aromatherapy Room Spray Recalled-Update
- Five Sunscreens Voluntarily Recalled; Many More Also Contain Carcinogen
- Shore Up Your Oral Defenses for Better Health
- Creativity in Veganism, and Discovering a Healthy Life Balance
- COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids: Should I Be Worried About Myocarditis?
- Dance and Movement Therapy Holds Promise for Treating Anxiety and Depression, as Well as Deeper Psychological Wounds
- No More Meat: Empowering Your Mind and Freeing Your Gut
- Part 2: The FDA Cracks Down On Stem Cell Therapy
- Part 4: What if I Want a Stem Cell Treatment?
- Part 3: Moving Forward and Keeping Stem Cell Treatments Safe
- Our Readers Report Their Side Effects to the COVID-19 Vaccine
- COVID-19 Vaccine and Bariatric Surgery for Hypertension
- Drug Overdoses Misreported as Cardiac Arrests, Study Shows
- New Hospital Ranking System Measures Unnecessary Treatments
- What’s the Healthiest Diet?
- Diabetes, Fertility Supplements, Nootropics
- Prenatal Opioid Exposure Can Harm Children and Teens
- News Scan 6/11/19
- Category: News
- No Link Found Between H1N1 Vaccine and Autism
- Diet as Effective as Bariatric Surgery for Managing Blood Sugar (And a lot Safer)
- COVID-19 and Babies, New COVID Meds, and Chloroquine
- Marijuana Linked to Autism and Another Hand Sanitizer Warning
- Inactive Ingredients, Heparin for COVID-19, and Dangerous Hand Sanitizer
- Heartburn Medication May Increase Your Risk of Contracting COVID-19
- Dangerous Hand Sanitizer and Twitter to Inform Doctors
- Remdesivir Linked to Liver Toxicity and More Metformin Recalls
- More Drugs Linked to Heart Failure
- SGLT-2 Inhibitors Need Black Box Warning, Metformin may Reduce COVID-19 Deaths, More Young People Contracting COVID-19
- Benzodiazapines Barely Affect Newborns, The Most Effective Way to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder
- Marijuana Increases Traffic Deaths, a New Study Shows
- FDA Issues Drug Recall to 5 Metformin Manufacturers
- Synthetic Red Blood Cells, NOAC’s for Atrial Fibrillation, Surgery to Ease Sciatica Pain
- FDA Recalls Metformin and NP Thyroid
- How Alcohol Affects Newborns, Farxiga for Heart Failure, CCBs and Diuretics
- Breaking News – EpiPen Malfunction
- Vaping and Heart Attack, Dense Breast Screening, Appendicitis, Psoriasis
- Effects of Vitamin D and Antibiotics during Pregnancy
- Belviq, ActiPatch, Free Samples, Dollar Tree Drugs
- Flouride, PPIs, Breast Density and Prostate Cancer
- Fish Oil and Semen, Belviq, HPV for Adults, Abortion Drug Reversal
- Hypertension, IBS, Hip Fracture and Multiple Meds
- Acupuncture Is Proving Effective – research round up
- HRT and Breast Cancer, Vivitrol Warning and Wrongly Prescribed Antibiotics
- Heart and Thyroid Drugs, Juul
- Blood Pressure Meds, ACE Inhibitors, Cipro, Steroids and Optimism
- FDA Breast Implant Warning?
- Stage Zero Breast Cancer and Biopsy
- Dementia, Nifedipine, Elmiron and Incidental Findings
- Propecia and the DEA
- Breast Cancer, THC Overdose, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Junk Food
- Asthma, Antibiotics, and More
- Vaping Tied to Mysterious Lung Disease
- Weed and Pregnancy, Vitamin D and Diabetes
- Overactive Bladder, Thyroid and Prostate Cancer
- Healthcare Myths, Triclosan and more
- Health News Scan 7/2/2019: Breastfeeding, Osteoporosis and more
- News Scan 6/18/2019: Gabapentin and Ketamine
- News Scan
- Chest Pain After Eating? Peppermint Oil Can Soothe Non-Cardiac Discomfort
- Can ‘Smart’ Pill Bottles Keep Drugs Safe from Abuse?
- Weed Degrades Sperm, Is Worse Than Cigarettes
- Hypnosis Can Be an Effective Pain Treatment, Meta-Analysis Finds
- No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe in Pregnancy, Study Says
- Sunscreen and Skin Absorption
- New Studies Point to Dangers of Parental Smoking for Offspring’s Health
- Sleeping Pills Get Black Box Warning
- HIV Patients Claim Pharmaceutical Giant Gilead Sciences Held Back Safer Drug
- MS Drug Restricted in Europe
- Quick Hits: Find Nature, Do Yoga to Beat Stress
- Blood Pressure Medicine Losartan Recall Expanded Due to Potential Carcinogen
- Forget the Munchies: New Study Finds Marijuana Users Weigh Less Than Nonsmokers
- Quick Hits: Transvaginal Mesh Pulled, New Weight Loss Drug & More
- Diabetes Drug May Also Help Kidney Disease
- Only Half on Statins See ‘Appropriate’ Reduction in Bad Cholesterol
- Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary Therapies, But Their Docs Don’t Know
- Quick Hits: Few Seniors Report Drug Adverse Events, New Osteoporosis Drug & More
- For Elderly, Multiple Meds After Heart Attack Come at a Cost
- Nutritious Foods, Not Dietary Supplements, Best for Living Longer
- FDA Reinforces Warnings About Kratom
- Quick Hits: Are Meds OK When Breastfeeding? FDA to Discuss Regulating CBD Products & More
- FDA Looking Into New Concern With E-Cigs: Seizures
- Smoking Pot While Pregnant May Increase Psychosis Risk in Child
- Marijuana Legalization Linked to More ER Visits
- Quick Hits: FDA Panel Discusses Breast Implant Risks, Proposed Mammography Regulations & More
- Are Opioids Necessary After a C-Section?
- Quick Hits: Daily Marijuana Use Linked to Psychosis, Homeopathic Med Made With Snake Venom & More
- Routine Acid Reflux Drug Use Linked to Kidney Problems
- Experimental Drug Lowers Cholesterol Without Statin Side Effects
- ADHD Meds Don’t Increase Seizure Risk in Those With Epilepsy
- Pharma Company Behind Controversial Drug Facing DOJ Probe
- Depression Drug Related to Ketamine Wins FDA Approval
- Large Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
- Can Factors Predict Psychiatric Effects with Smoking Cessation Drugs?
- Quick Hits: FDA Mandates Studies on Opioids for Chronic Pain, Regulating CBD & More
- Vitamins During Pregnancy May Reduce Autism Risk in Offspring
- Acid Reflux Drugs Tied to Higher Kidney Disease Risk
- Increased Death Risk Prompts Boxed Warning for Gout Drug
- Quick Hits: Light Exercise and Hypertension, Using Acupuncture to Relieve Menopause Symptoms & More
- Yeast Infection Drug May Increase Miscarriage Risk
- More Men at Low Risk of Prostate Cancer Choosing to Avoid Treatment
- More Fatal Car Crashes Related to Rx Opioid Use
- Quick Hits: FDA Panel Favors New Depression Drug, Marijuana Use and Depression & More
- Marijuana Edibles Can Pose Dangers to Those With Heart Conditions
- FDA Goes After Supplement Manufacturers Making Health Claims
- Many Patients Don’t Disclose Complementary Medicine Use to Doctors
- Quick Hits: Medical Marijuana and Chronic Pain, Are Rx Pain Creams Effective? & More
- Mindfulness, CBT Can Be More Effective for Pain Than Meds
- Most Cardiovascular Drugs Safe in Pregnancy
- Quick Hits: Fish Oil Doesn’t Help Asthma, E-Cigs and Heart Disease & More
- FDA Warns Recalls Causing Shortage of Common Blood Pressure Drug
- Another Study Questions Low-Dose Aspirin for Cardiovascular Protection
- About 25% of Antibiotic Prescriptions Unnecessary
- Quick Hits: Medication Recommended for Women at High Breast Cancer Risk, FDA Committee Supports Gout Drug & More
- No Increased Adverse Event Risk With Opioid, Alcohol Abuse Drug
- Antiepileptic Drug Linked to ADHD in Offspring
- Quick Hits: Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine Comes Up Short; Transdermal HRT Found Safer than Pills
- Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Fosamax, MedShadow Foundation Contributes Amicus Brief
- How High? Researchers Test Smoking Pot vs. Vaping to Find Out
- Can Aligning Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer with Circadian Rhythms Minimize Side Effects?
- Quick Hits: Voluntary Recall of Some Valsartan Lots, Cryotherapy Risks, France Recalls Breast Implants
- Antidepressants May Increase Hip Fracture Risk in Older Adults
- Most Medications Don’t Help Knee Osteoarthritis Pain Long Term
- Quick Hits: Opioids Not That Effective For Chronic Pain, and Many Women Shun Drug For Breast Cancer Prevention
- More Risks Than Benefits for Healthy People on Low-Dose Aspirin
- Physical Therapy Can Reduce Long-Term Opioid Use
- Quick Hits: Antipsychotics and Death Risk in Children, Fentanyl: America’s Deadliest Drug & More
- Can a Placebo Cause Harm?
- FDA Warns About Stroke, Artery Tear Risk With Multiple Sclerosis Drug
- Quick Hits: Meds, Falls and Dementia Patients; Avoid Male Enhancement Supplements & More
- Benzo, Opioid Combination in Alzheimer’s Patients Potentially Dangerous
- Experimental Peanut Allergy Drug Shows Promise, But With Side Effects
- Quick Hits: FDA Cracks Down on Flavored E-Cigs, No CV or Cancer Benefit from Fish Oil and Vitamin D Supplements & More
- Many Medications Taken Longer Than Recommended
- Many Believe Side Effects Exaggerated on Medication Leaflets
- Quick Hits: Statins and Seniors, ‘Magic Mushrooms’ As Depression Treatment & More
- Patients Receive Many More Opioids Than They Need After Surgery
- Opioids Linked to Higher Risk of Irregular Heartbeat
- FDA Approves Controversial New Opioid
- Quick Hits: Antibiotics and Childhood Obesity, Alternative Therapies Don’t Cure Cancer & More
- No Cardiovascular Benefit Using Meds in Mild Hypertension
- New Shingles Vaccine More Effective Than Older One, But With One Drawback
- Common Blood Pressure Drugs May Raise Lung Cancer Risk
- Quick Hits: New Flu Drug Approved, Alternatives to Opioids After Surgery & More
- Moderate Aerobic Exercise Can Produce Antidepressant Effects
- Antipsychotics Ineffective for Delirium in Gravely Ill Patients
- Chemo Side Effects More Prevalent in Women Than Men
- Quick Hits: Older Adults Want To Take Fewer Drugs, Talk Therapy Side Effects & More
- Many Dietary Supplements Tainted With Drug Ingredients
- Quick Hits: Decongestant Warning for Children, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Dementia & More
- Quick Hits: FDA Raids E-Cig Manufacturer, Asthma Drugs’ Side Effects & More
- For Many, Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Linger
- Quick Hits: Oral Contraceptives May Cut Ovarian Cancer Risk, Lyrica and Chronic Pain & More
- Many Seniors at Risk For Supplement-Drug Interactions
- Opioid-Related Complications Sending More Seniors to Hospital
- Quick Hits: More Fluoroquinolone Risks
- For Weight Loss, Benefits of Medications Don’t Outweigh the Risks
- Low-Dose Aspirin for Healthy Older Adults Brings Risks, Not Benefits
- For Some, Placebo as Effective as Med for Pain Relief
- Quick Hits: FDA Threatens E-Cig Manufacturers, Elderly Polypharmacy and Falls & More
- Panel Says Routine Prostate Cancer Screening Unnecessary for Most Men
- Many Older Patients End Up Using Benzodiazepines Long Term
- Quick Hits: Pain Reliever Linked to CV Events, More Kids With ADHD & More
- FDA Warns of Genital Infection Risk With Class of Diabetes Drugs
- Quick Hits: Weight-Loss Drug and Heart Risks, Fish Oil Pills and CV Risk & More
- Many Children At Risk for Serious Drug-Drug Interactions
- Study Questions Aspirin’s Effect in Preventing Cardiovascular Events
- Antibiotic Side Effects Send 70,000 Children to ER Annually
- Quick Hits: E-Cigs and Heart Attacks, Influencing Doctor Prescribing & More
- Dementia Drugs Often Taken Longer Than Clinical Evidence Supports
- New Guideline Calls For Annual Incontinence Screening for Women
- Early Weight Gain on Antidepressants Predicts Later Weight Gain
- Quick Hits: Recall of Hypertension Drug Grows, Probiotics Side Effects & More
- No Benefit From Fish Oil Pills in Reducing Cardiovascular Risks
- Quick Hits: Drugmaker Stops Making Controversial Antibiotic, Marijuana for Epilepsy & More
- Opioid Prescribing Relatively High for Sprained Ankles
- Quick Hits: Troubled Birth Control Device, Antidepressants and Blood Clots & More
- Opioids Significantly Increase Side Effects in Dementia Patients
- Are E-Cigs Effective As a Smoking Cessation Tool?
- Quick Hits: Dangerous Side Effects With Some Diabetes Drugs, Vitamin D Doesn’t Curb Cancer & More
- Don’t Look to Multivitamins for Heart, Stroke Benefits
- Acupuncture May Relieve Side Effect Seen in Breast Cancer Drugs
- Quick Hits: Guidelines Could Boost Use of Hypertension Meds, Using AI to Predict Drug Interactions & More
- FDA Again Requires Labeling Changes for Controversial Antibiotics
- Use of Low Testosterone Therapy Declines Dramatically
- FDA Guidance Aims to Help Docs Make Better Drug Choices for Patients
- Analysis Confirms Combination Inhalers Don’t Increase Asthma-Related Death Risk
- Antidepressants May Boost Risk of Death in COPD Patients
- Quick Hits: New Flu Drug Gets Priority Review and Get a Second Blood Pressure Reading
- Get Fit to Avoid Depression, Cardiovascular Disease Later in Life
- Task Force Maintains Osteoporosis Screening Recommendation
- Frequent Follow-Up Testing for Colorectal Cancer Unnecessary
- Sales of Black Market Opioid Prescription Drugs Soar
- More Children Taking Supplements, Some With Side Effects
- Quick Hits: Many Antibiotic Prescriptions Unnecessary, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Distress & More
- More Than One-Third of Adults Take Meds That Have Depression Risk
- FDA Cracks Down on Online Sellers of Rx Opioids
- Quick Hits: ASCO Roundup – Speeding Up Cancer Drug Approvals and PPIs May Be Useful in Throat Cancer
- Study: Many Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer Can Skip Chemo
- Patients and Clinicians Underestimate Antibiotic Side Effects
- Antidepressant Use May Fuel Unhealthy Weight Gain
- Opioid-Related Side Effects Common Among Hospitalized Patients Who Undergo Medical Procedures
- FDA Goes After Companies Marketing Sun Protection Supplements
- Quick Hits: New Opioid Withdrawal Treatment, Prices in Drug Commercials & More
- Corticosteroid Adverse Events Risk Increases With Longer Use
- Rx Drug Use Among Adolescents Drops
- Pharma Payments Drive Doc Opioid-Prescribing Patterns
- Quick Hits: Drugmakers Fail on Postmarket Studies and Cancer Therapies That Aren’t Breakthroughs
- Can Google Influence Your Perception of Negative Side Effects?
- Got Chronic Pain? Cognitive Therapies May Provide Relief
- Quick Hits: Synthetic Opioid Deaths Rise and Party Drug Shows Promise for PTSD
- ‘Juice Box’ E-Cig Liquids Draw Ire of Federal Regulators
- Acne Med May Make You Blue…Literally
- Parkinson’s, Overactive Bladder Meds May Raise Dementia Risk
- Quick Hits: Lamictal Warning, FDA Crackdown on E-Cigs & Drug Take Back Day
- Many Women Shun Preventive Breast Cancer Meds
- Pregnant Moms and Coffee Increases Risk of Overweight Kids
- FDA Encouraging Industry to Make More Opioid Abuse Therapies
- Quick Hits: Marijuana and Cognitive Impairment, New Migraine Treatment & More
- FDA Warns on High-Caffeine Supplements
- Doc Group Says No to Marijuana for Sleep Apnea
- Fish Oil Pills Don’t Help Dry Eye
- Quick Hits: Pregnant Moms and Antidepressants, Deaths Linked to Parkinson’s Drug & More
- FDA Moves to Include Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials
- FDA Restricts Sale of Birth Control Device
- Quick Hits: Autism and Antipsychotics, Online Opioids & More
- Antacids, Antibiotics Given to Infants May Lead to Allergies
- Groups Sue FDA for Delaying E-Cig Regulations
- Quick Hits: Antibiotics Prescribed Too Long, Risky Drugs Prescribed to Seniors & More
- Antibiotic Side Effects Mount and Researchers Don’t Know Why
- Long-Term Antibiotic Use May Curb Life Span in Women
- Quick Hits: Breast Implants and Lymphoma, Gut Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance & More
- FDA Weighs Further Regulating Flavored Tobacco
- Trump Opioid Plan Involves Vaccine, Death Penalty
- FDA Proposes Lowering Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
- Quick Hits: Are Smokeless Tobacco Devices Safer, Another Muscular Dystrophy Drug & More
- Many Consumer Drug Ads ‘Unreliable’ and ‘Potentially Misleading’
- No Link Found Between Tamiflu and Suicide Risk in Kids
- Quick Hits: Unapproved Flu Meds, Birth Control Device Concerns & More
- First At-Home Genetic Test For Breast Cancer Risk Approved
- Opioids No Better At Relieving Back, Hip Pain Than Non-Opioids
- MS Drug Pulled from Market Worldwide
- Quick Hits: Limiting Opioid Rxs, Accutane Defense & More
- DOJ Going After Drug Makers in Opioid Epidemic Fight
- FDA Issues Heart Warning for Antibiotic
- Quick Hits: Kratom Recall, Eye Drug’s Alarming Side Effect & More
- Despite Modest Effectiveness, Still Get a Flu Vaccine
- Beauty Supplements Do Little to Improve Your Skin
- Quick Hits: Arthritis Drugs and Dementia, Opioids and Patient Advocacy Groups & More
- Twitter Helps Identify Side Effects of Steroids
- Ovarian Cancer Screening Not Recommended for Low-Risk Women
- The Dangers of Taking Too Much Pain Reliever
- Quick Hits: Antidepressants and Ovarian Cancer, Limiting Opioid Scripts & More
- Antibiotics, Antidepressants Top FDA’s Watch List
- Quick Hits: Imodium Abuse, Polypharmacy and Hospitalization & More
- Fish Oil Pills Do Little to Reduce Cardiovascular Risks
- Getting the Flu Boosts Risk of Heart Attack
- Herbal Supplements Can Cause Dangerous Interactions With Drugs
- Quick Hits: Vaping and Teens, Unapproved Opioid Treatments & More
- Dairy Probiotics May Lower Risk of Pregnancy Complications
- Morning Sickness Drug May Be Ineffective
- Tamiflu Linked to Bizarre Behavior, Changes to Rx Cold Meds With Codeine & More
- Prenatal Exposure to Tylenol Linked to Toddler Language Issues
- Bariatric Surgery Lowers Death Rate in Obese Patients
- Anti-Smoking Drug Linked to Heart, Stroke Risks
- Quick Hits: Ibuprofen and Male Fertility, Prostate Cancer Treatment Distress & More
- Could Taking Tylenol During Pregnancy Change the Reproductive Systems of Female Offspring
- Multiple Myeloma Medicine Linked to CVD
- Quick Hits: COPD Med Associated with Heart Attacks, and Risks Linked to Concurrent Surgeries
- FDA: Patients Who Respond Well to CML Drug Don’t Have to Stay on It Forever
- FDA Reiterates Warning Against Power Morcellation for Fibroids
- Task Force Recommends Against Hormone Replacement Therapy for Postmenopausal Women
- Small Increase in Breast Cancer Risk with Use of Hormonal Birth Control
- Quick Hits: Opioid-Driven Hospitalizations Up, Marijuana Not Helping With Opioid Addiction Treatment & More
- A Biosimilar OK’d for Breast Cancer Treatment
- Common Hypertension Med Linked to Skin Cancer Risk
- Quick Hits: Antidepressants and Lung Damage, Intranasal Analgesics for Kids & More
- IVF and ICSI Babies at Higher Risk of Heart Defects
- Elevated Risk of Suicide for New Users of Hormonal Birth Control Methods
- Quick Hits: Gut Biome vs Chemo; Wrong Prescriptions for Dementia Patients & More
- FDA Strengthening Cardiovascular, Stroke Warnings for Rx NSAIDs
- FDA Warns About the Side Effects of Injectable Silicone to Enhance Body Shapes
- Gout Drug Associated with Cardiovascular Risk
- Zapping Dry Eyes – Through the Nose
- For Seasonal Allergies, Taking 1 Drug is Better Than 2
- Quick Hits: Warfarin May Lower Cancer Risk, Using ‘Big Data’ to Predict Side Effects & More
- 7 Deaths Linked to EpiPen Failures
- Side Effects Increased in Combo Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Opioids No Better for Leg & Arm Pain Than Ibuprofen
- Quick Hits: Pharma Gifts and Doctor Prescribing, Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Soar & More
- Long-Term Use of a Category of Acid Reflux Drugs Can Boost Stomach Cancer Risk
- Tylenol Use in Pregnancy Tied to ADHD Risk in Children
- Quick Hits: Some Bariatric Surgery Patients Susceptible to Opioid Abuse; FDA Warns Lead-Testing Company
- Young People on Antidepressants at Increased Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
- Quick Hits: FDA Approves Innovative Therapy for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma & New Biosimilar for Avastin
- The New, Easier-to-Use Blood Thinners Compare Well with Warfarin in New Study
- New Cancer Therapy’s Toxic Side Effects Can Be Predicted in Patients
- Quick Hits: Penicillin Allergies and Surgical Infections, FDA Okays Drug for Metastasized Breast Cancer & More
- Antibiotics for Dental Procedures Linked to Superbug Infection
- No Clear Evidence That Most New Cancer Drugs Extend or Improve Life
- Quick Hits: Blood Thinner Causing Bleeding When Combined with Other Drugs, Side Effects Jump When Meds Go Generic & More
- Study Reveals High Rates of Opioid Prescriptions and Excessive Dosing in Dialysis Patients
- Patient Deaths Reported With Controversial Muscular Dystrophy Drug
- 1 in 3 Seniors Take Sleep Aids Despite Warnings
- Asthma Drug Singulair Causes Nightmares, Depression in Children and Adults
- Quick Hits: Big Rise in Hospitalizations for Kids with Opioid Side Effects & Persistent Pain Linked to Memory Decline in Seniors
- Antidepressant Use Not as Risky for People with Heart Disease
- Quick Hits: Americans Open to Non-Drug Pain Treatments, Psychiatric Drugs’ Impact on Cognition & More
- Half of Americans Misusing Prescription Drugs, Opioids
- Diet Change More Effective Than Meds for Acid Reflux
- Vaccine Side Effects Not Likely to Recur With Subsequent Doses
- Quick Hits: Withdrawn Leukemia Drug Returning, Drugmaker in $58M Settlement Over Sales Reps, and More
- Groups Ask FDA to Pull Ultra-High-Dose Opioids From Market, Citing Risks
- FDA Warns of Risk of Using Cancer Drug for Unapproved Indication
- Quick Hits: Psychedelic Ecstasy Eyed for PTSD, Ibuprofen May Raise Blood Pressure, and More
- Concerns Grow Over Arthritis, Psoriasis Drug’s Link to Liver Damage
- Oral Steroid Meds Ineffective for Chest Infections
- Quick Hits: Antidepressant Use Soars, FDA Looks at Presenting Fewer Risks in Drug Ads and Marijuana Linked to Hypertension
- Do Alternative Treatments for Cancer Work? This Study Says No
- Taking Meds While Pregnant: FDA Seeks Answers on Risks
- FDA Wants Doctors to Rethink Opioid Cough Suppressants for Children
- Quick Hits: New Med Doesn’t Help Lower Back Pain, Acupuncture & Electrotherapy Help After Knee Replacement Surgery, More
- Can Opioids Be Replaced in Treating Chronic Pain?
- Quick Hits: Abuse-Deterrent Opioids Don’t Deter, Antidepressants Can Increase Head Injuries in Seniors & More
- Quick Hits: Abuse-Deterrent Opioids Don’t Deter, Antidepressants Can Increase Head Injuries in Seniors & More
- A Chemo Drug May Spread Cancer
- Overprescribing Opioids for Cancer Survivors
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- Lymphodema
- Macular degeneration
- Malaria
- Medical Error
- Memory Loss
- Menopause
- Migraines
- Morning Sickness
- morning sickness
- Motion Sickness
- Multiple Myeloma
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Nerve Damage
- Neuropathy
- Obesity
- OCD
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Ovarian Cancer
- Overactive Bladder
- Overmedication
- Overtreatment
- Pain
- PCOS
- Polypharmacy
- Pregnancy
- Premature Birth
- Premature Labor
- Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
- Prenatal Opioid Exposure
- Preterm Birth
- Prostate
- Prostate Cancer
- Psoriasis
- Psychotic Disorders
- PTSD
- Respiratory Disease
- Restasis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Seniors
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- sexual disatisfaction
- Side Effects
- side effects of breast biopsy
- Skin Cancer
- Skin Rash
- Sleep
- Sleep Deprivation
- SLND
- Smoking
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Sun sensitivity
- Thyroid
- Vaping
- vertigo
- Warfarin
- Women's Health
- Yeast infection
