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This best-selling diarrhea drug could kill you February 6, 2018

We’ve all been hit with it at one time or another — Montezuma’s Revenge! It can happen on an adventure to a faraway locale or right in your own home. And I bet you have the go-to treatment for that in your medicine cabinet right now: the old standby loperamide, a.k.a. Imodium A-D. But before […]

Could this be a prescription for a shorter life? January 1, 2018

It should be a given that the life expectancy in America would be on the rise, not the other way around. But some just-out statistics are telling us for the second year in a row that those numbers are dropping, something which hasn’t happened in the U.S. for over half a century! Last year — […]

As TV drug ads get worse, the FDA wants your help! December 21, 2017

It looks like the feds aren’t even pretending to police all of those “direct-to-consumer” prescription-drug ads anymore. While the constant drumbeat of drug commercials might just seem to be a major annoyance when you’re trying to watch TV, those ads are actually a very big problem to the FDA. Amazingly, Big Pharma spends over $5 […]

Before taking any Rx drug, ask THIS October 16, 2017

Taking prescription drugs is about to become a whole lot more dangerous. To hear Big Pharma talk about it, the new state laws beginning to pop up will help your doctor to better help you. That’s what those who support the unravelling of Rx drug regulations will tell you, too. Sweeping away long-held FDA restrictions […]

Online drug side-effect data enough to spook anyone! October 11, 2017

You know those cheesy old horror flicks that force travelers to spend the night in a spooky castle? As the rain pours down and the lightning flashes through the windows, the resident mad scientist typically assures them: “Relax, you’re perfectly safe here.” That’s exactly what came to mind when I heard the reaction to the […]

Latest study shouldn’t ‘ease your mind’ about these drugs August 24, 2017

By comparison, these cholesterol meds make statins look warm and fuzzy! I’m talking about Repatha and Praluent, the PCSK9 blockers that hit the market just a little over two years ago. These drugs put up a roadblock to a gene that regulates how much of it your liver produces — and, in the process, they […]

Could you be taking an antidepressant and not know it? August 22, 2017

It’s hard to believe, but the numbers are in — and they’re telling a very bleak story. A shocking, just-out CDC study has found that in the 15 years between 1999 and 2014, the numbers of Americans taking antidepressants has zoomed up a whopping 65 percent. That boils down to 1 in 8 people over […]

What are these blood pressure drugs doing to your kidneys? August 7, 2017

At first, it was a medical mystery. Odd lesions formed by the growth of “defective and nonfunctional” veins were found in the kidneys of laboratory mice But that discovery was a lightbulb moment for a group of scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine — because the cause of those damaging lesions was […]

These easy-to-find allergy drugs can steal your vision July 27, 2017

Dear Reader, It’s a warning you won’t be seeing on the label — or likely even hearing from your doctor. Using those popular, easy-to-find, OTC allergy nasal sprays could rob you of your vision. These drugs contain a steroid that can cause you to develop what’s called a “posterior subcapsular cataract.” That’s right — cataracts! […]

Don't fall for this new trick to push risky cancer drug July 17, 2017

If there were ever a sucker punch aimed at women with breast cancer — or those told they have a high risk of developing it — this would surely be it. A group of smug researchers from the Queen Mary University of London believe they have the answer as to why women are refusing to […]

OTC devices nearly as good as prescription hearing aids July 12, 2017

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing! A professional in the field of hearing — an audiologist affiliated with Johns Hopkins, no less — has come out and said something the hearing-aid industry will no doubt be seething over. You don’t need to fork over thousands for a device to hear better. Several months ago, […]

These popular drugs can up your risk of dying by 50 percent! July 11, 2017

This is likely the strongest warning ever issued about one of the most popular drugs out there. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are sounding the alarm louder than ever before about those acid-suppressing meds called proton pump inhibitors. These are the ones with familiar names like Nexium and Prilosec that […]

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