Problems with Proton Pump Inhibitors
Popular heartburn drugs like omeprazole, pantoprazole, esomeprazole and others belong to a class of medications called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
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Financial Toxicity
Patients living with diseases like heart disease, cancer, and other conditions that require expensive treatments and frequent hospitalizations are often
Blood Pressure Drug Recalls
If you are a health care professional, or a person who takes blood pressure medicine, or even just a person
Who Needs a Vitamin?
About one third of adults in the United States take a multivitamin supplement, but most of them don’t need them.
3 Ways Honey May Be Used as Medicine
Honey has a centuries-old history of use in medicine, but may be overlooked by modern healthcare providers due to the
Kratom: Panacea or Poison?
Kratom comes from a tree from Southeast Asia, related to the coffee plant, that contains mind altering substances in its
Why You Can’t Get a Lower Cost Generic Drug
Pharmaceutical manufacturers spend millions of dollars developing, testing, and marketing new drug products. The vast majority of new chemical entities
Things Your Pharmacist Knows
Pharmacists go to school for several years and learn a lot of things, and then they get jobs and learn
What Are Orphan Drugs?
Medications that treat rare diseases are generally not profitable for drug companies to develop because there is not a large
Three Things Stem Cells Might Treat
The promise of stem cell therapy to treat and cure many conditions has already led to the proliferation of clinics
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