You can't buy Sudafed OTC anymore. In its place is something called Sudafed PE, which is useless. Why? It's all about crystal meth. A little chemistry lesson.
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Medicare doesn't dispute how much pharmaceutical companies charge for their drugs. This laxity has inevitably led to the program being fleeced by them – to the tune of over a billion dollars. And that's just for a drug that doesn't even need to be in use.
Ever wonder if your cabinet is full of expired medication? If so, what can you keep, and what should you toss?
People all over the world pop Tylenol like candy corn without a second thought, so it must be pretty safe, right? Hardly. The drug can be lethal when taken in a dose that isn't all that much higher than the dose you might take for flu or a headache. Perhaps more surprising, a bottle of 50 Tylenol pills will probably kill you while a bottle of 500 Valium will probably not.
Over-the-counter drugs – especially for coughs, colds and insomnia – are routinely combined with pain medications. This is usually unnecessary and possibly dangerous. So why are these drugs in there? It's due to unethical marketing by drug companies. Not cool, guys.
Injecting an ethanol-based gel directly into a specific type of tumor, called squamous cell carcinoma, resulted in a 100% cure rate in a hamster model.
A small study showed promising results for a new app that can detect increased bilirubin levels in one's eyes — an early indicator of pancreatic cancer.
Last week's FDA approval of a novel cancer treatment is nothing short of historic. Not only does it give long-overdue hope to patients suffering from pediatric leukemia, but it also opens up a world of new treatment possibilities for other forms of this horrific disease.
GMOs were a worry 40 years ago? Yes, though today GMO insulin is regarded as a gigantic success story for public health in this century, in 1977 the same political forces and activists still aligned against science now, were present then. Just the names have changed.
Royal jelly contains a molecule that promotes wound healing. But don't rush to the local natural remedy store quite yet.
Mommy blogs can be chock full of great advice. They become problematic when bloggers dispense and perpetrate bad medical advice. Learn why leaving the bun in the oven for too long can be a situation of life and death.
Chelation therapy is the main form of treatment for toxic acute metal poisonings. Somehow, this treatment has become mainstream with claims by junk science gurus that chelation treats other disorders, real or imagined.