medication Archive
A nurse for my mother in law told me that it is standard practice for a hospital or nursing home to ‘peel back’ medications that a patient is taking in order to determine if they are on the right medication …
The Food and Drug Administration is constantly busy testing and retesting all sorts of foods, drugs, and devices that are available for public use, and thankfully, the FDA is capable enough to catch most potential hazards before they become a …
By Luis Gay In the past, whenever a cancer drug was created and released, people became excited. However, no one blinks an eye anymore because new treatments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, far out of reach for many cancer …
By Mario Trucillo, PhDIf you’ve ever had a medical procedure, taken a prescription, or care for someone that does, there’s something you ought to know. While doctors always seek to give proper care and treatment, sometimes the prescriptions have inherent …
Most people who have taken classes that discuss ethics have had the Heinz dilemma thrust upon them. The situation is instantly recognizable; your loved one is diagnosed with a terminal disease, there is a cure, but the drug costs $20,000. …
Big Pharm has had a good year. Not that you can measure happiness on a scale from 1-10, but if you could, Big Pharm would say they are 84 billion…dollars that is. That’s the profit that the drug companies tallied …
In this fast paced world titles often work to catch our attention, and to draw us into written content. A recent article titled “Xanax ‘helps me be a better mom’“, posted on CNN, did just that to me today. The …
As a follow-up to a previous article on youth in the child welfare system and overuse of psychotropic medications, Imagine Giving an Infant A Psychiatric Drug, here are some highlights from the December 2012 Government Accountability Office’s Congressional report on …
Humans are interesting creatures. There are many things that we do unconsciously, or consciously for that matter, that are done in an effort to protect ourselves from an evolutionary perspective. Take for example Phobias. While they are ‘irrational fears’ they …
By Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer OxyContin seems to be the medication causing dilemmas here in Canada. The drug or medication has been authorized to be a generic and this has some people uncertain, scared, cautious. OxyContin is a painkiller and …
