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A Little Scary…
On May 27, the FDA alerted consumers and healthcare professionals not to buy or use Xiadafil VIP Tablets sold in bottles of 8 tablets or blister cards of 2 tablets. The product is marketed as a dietary supplement and is promoted and sold over the internet for sexual enhancement and to treat erectile dysfunction. “The ...
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Blogging About Alzheimers
Patients diagnosed with early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are speaking out and demanding more attention, according to an article in today’s New York Times. Some patients—like 52-year-old Kris Bakowski of Athens, Georgia—are even blogging about their personal experience. Bakowski’s blog Creating Memories documents her daily struggles and successes with the disease. There are several drugs ...
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Bill Maher Talks Drugs
Bill Maher Bill Maher – one of my very favorite comedians—pokes fun at our over-dependency on prescription drugs in his stand-up routine The Decider. I like how Maher says we “come up with the pill before the disease.” Sometimes it certainly seems that way!
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Cancer Drug Extends Life
I don’t want people to get the idea that I am opposed to prescription drugs and medicine. I firmly believe that there are drugs out there that have done wonders for the human raceand I think it’s amazing that there are people out there creating these wonder-meds… so I figure I should be sure to ...
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Drugstore Cowboys
Drugstore cowboy video I was just thinking about the movie Drugstore Cowboy the other day. It’s one of my favorites, and I think it was a little ahead of its time. It was made in 1989, and while pharmacy robberies have been going on since the first pharmacy opened its doors, they probably weren’t ...
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May Drug Approvals
So, just to keep up with my occasional updates on FDA drug approvals, I feel compelled to point out that May was a bumper month for new drugs—166 approvals in total! The list is way too long to go over in detail, but, wow. 166 new approvals in one month? If that is the norm ...