Medicine Articles

The newest thing in the American medical savings game is prescription drug cards, where users pay a monthly fee (anywhere from $10-100, approximately) that nets them discounts at their local medical establishment. Doctors, pharmacists, dentists and e...

A recent national survey done by the Kaiser Family Foundation in association with Princeton Survey Research Associates (PSRA) discovered that the digital world is still divided when it comes to seniors purchasing prescription drugs online. The study ...

It would be easy if all drugs fit into categories named after the seven dwarves (Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy…etc). Unfortunately, the naming of new drugs is well short of a fairytale process. Drugs, regardless of prescription or over-the-counter s...

Advent Medical Services Advent Medical Services (AMS) is a leading medical service provider based in India with accomplished and distinguished physicians and surgeons with vast experience in medical field.At AMS, we strongly believe in patient confid...

Though the root causes are often unclear, perhaps the most prevalent acid reflux cause is a poor diet. Acid reflux occurs during digestion, when the stomach churns up acid or refluxes it into the esophagus, causing a burning sensation in the chest or...

Headache & Pain Management Center of Palm Beach Medical conditions manifesting as pain account for 80 % of physician visits and pain costs Americans $120 billion in expenditures yearly. With this in mind, it is astonishing that only recently has pa...

Power-Assisted Liposuction (PAL®) is a new and important technology invented by MicroAire for body sculpting. Research has shown that it is a more effective and safer way to eliminate unwanted deposits of fat that are resistant to dieting and exerc...

Modern medicine seems to be winning the war against infectious diseases and is good at repairing the body from trauma, these used to be the main causes of ill health and death in western societies. The major cause of ill health and death in the 21st ...

Complementary medicine and Alternative medicine are two different entities. Complementary medicine is used together with conventional medicine. An example would be the use of aromatherapy to help lessen a patient's discomfort following surgery. Al...

Prescription drugs as is evident from the very name are those that are prescribed to us by doctor to cure our illness. These drugs are not illicit and almost all of them are readily available in the retail medicine stores. But there are quite a few c...

Body fat, in other words the adipose tissue, has been lately studied as a separate body organ which can generate a number of different molecules very active from the biological point of view. The most important for our debate are: the hormone resist...

There are, of course, pros and cons to virtually everything in life, and the Internet is certainly no exception. Going even further, the specific area of the Internet about which there are definitely pros and cons, is the Online Pharmacy or rather, t...

A new ADHD drug, Attenace, will likely hit pharmacy shelves in early 2006. This "new" ADHD drug isn't actually so new to the about 20,000 people currently taking Provigil "off-label" for ADHD. Attenace contains modafinil, the same active ingredient i...

Provigil is an interesting drug. It keeps narcoleptics from falling asleep and it also appears to help people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) stay focused. But how effective is Provigil for ADHD...

Phentermine (sometimes known under the alternative names of: Adipex-P; Obenix; Oby-Trim; Anoxine-AM; Fastin; Ionamin; Obephen; Obermine; Obestin-30; Phentrol) is a powerful weight-loss drug first approved by the FDA in 1959. In use for almost half a ...

This prescription birth control pill is a tablet, taken once daily. It has an additional benefit of clearing acne from your skin and keeping you beautiful. Ortho Tri-Cyclen is usually a good idea for women who are at least 15 years old, and who have ...

Is your town like mine? Pharmacy chain stores like Walgreens are springing up everywhere, and doing so like there is no tomorrow. The demand for one drug niche market, the prescription drug addiction market, is especially booming and unrelenting. Con...

About a year ago I wrote an article on Oppositional Defiant Disorder discussing the condition, symptoms and treatment options. This article is an update describing what is new. -Introduction Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a psychiatric behavi...

If you are taking prescription medicines, you know that one of the chief complaints of users is the outrageous cost for some medications. Even if you have a prescription plan through your employer or via the government you are likely paying much more...

New Blood Pressure Treatment Guidelines are on the way. Blood pressure treatment recommendations may be about to change as a result of a new large study called the ASCOT TRIAL. The 'Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial' (ASCOT) compared two drug...

In our everyday life, our body is exposed to various toxins almost all the time. We are facing toxin attacks in the food, in the water we drink even in the air we breath. Heavy metal toxins like Mercury, Lead and Cadmium gets deposited and builds up ...

What are the potential negative side effects of NSAIDs? Approximately 10-50% of patients suffer with gastrointestinal issues such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating, heartburn, and upset stomach. Furthermore, 15% develop ulcers after long-term use...

Arthritis is the most common disorder leading to crippling and deformity. It affects about 70 million Americans. Because there are more than 100 different kinds of arthritis, it is important to know what type of condition you're dealing with. Effec...

With more medical advantages, an adjustable bed finds more functions in a hospital or a nursing home. It provides relief to people who are bed-ridden or those who have to stay in bed for long hours and can be adjusted either manually or electrically....

There is a huge concern in the medical industry that if a biological weapon were released that those sick might come to the hospitals in such large numbers that before you realized an attack had occurred everyone in every nearby hospital would also b...

Sinusitis and Sinus Infection Starts with a Little Sniffle Yes, I hear it too. A simple sniffle in a distant cubical. No big deal. But wait. There went another. Before long the office uproars in a virtual canon of sniffing, and it is more alarming th...

Consider this: Already since 1972, over 60 million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking! At one stage over 60% of the adult population was addicted to this drug. Today it is 28% and dropping........ Now, isn't this a fair thought.....

1. Seeing a doctor who's not board-certified or a doctor who isn't really an arthritis specialist. A lot of doctors will tell you they're "board-eligible." That's nonsense! What "board-eligible" means is that they did the training for the specialt...

There are high arch feet and low arch feet and many different foot types in between. Many individuals have flatfeet, but do not have foot problems. All of us are born with flatfeet and some of the greatest athletes have flatfeet. But, flatfeet are a ...

We cannot help but accept the fact that children do get into trouble and sometimes emergencies when they are left in childcare programs. We just have to pray that most injuries sustained are minor such as cuts, scrapes, bruises, among others. But whe...