Tag Archives: Big Pharma
Your 4 year old needs Ritalin
Unfortunately, your child’s pediatrician might agree. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently changed the age at which children could be diagnosed with ADHD. Now children as young as 4 and as old as 18 can be diagnosed with attention deficit … Continue reading
Filed under Brain Health
Prescription Drug Deaths Outnumber Traffic Accident Deaths
For anyone that considers prescription drugs safe and harmless, this is sobering news. For the first time, deaths from prescription drugs now outnumber deaths from traffic accidents. Deaths from prescription medication has been on the rise for years. As a … Continue reading
Filed under Big Pharma, Public Health
NSAIDs raise miscarriage risk
A recently published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has concluded that women who take NSAIDs in the first trimester of pregnancy are more than twice as likely to have a miscarriage than women who do not. NSAIDs, or … Continue reading
Filed under Big Pharma, Public Health
Pharmaceutical Deceit – How Big Pharma misleads the FDA and gets away with it.
Below is an article I read in, of all places, Vanity Fair. It does a nice job showing you just how sneaky the pharmaceutical industry can be to get their drugs approved. I have re-posted the entire article. It’s a … Continue reading
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Hospitalizations from prescription drugs increase 98% in 5 years!
Below is an article on prescription abuse and misuse in the U.S. The numbers are startling. If we want to begin to cut health care costs we need to reign in the pharmaceutical industry and their aggressive marketing. See my … Continue reading
Filed under Big Pharma, Public Health
Forget the Flu Vaccine – Take Vitamin D!
My most recent blog focused on the new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that stated most people in North America were getting enough vitamin D. Their research, however, focused only on vitamin D as it pertains to bone … Continue reading
Filed under Big Pharma, Diet, Environmental Health, Public Health
Confessions of a Pharmaceutical Sales Rep
The above video was brought to our attention from a patient of ours who happens to be a medical doctor. The woman in the video is a former pharmaceutical sales person and speaks about the amazing ways in which Big … Continue reading
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