Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We need to find out the relationship between the intake of prescription drugs and the increased risk of automobile accidents. And if that data show a strong correlation, prescription drugs need to carry strong warnings and physicians need to start warning patients not to drive when they consume these drugs.
Then again, most doctors and patients alike routinely ignore drug safety warnings. Come to think of it, cigarette packages quite blatantly tell people that smoking causes lung cancer, and the general population hasn't figured that one out yet, either. | | My theory is that when you have people out there driving around the cities of our nation and they're doped up on drugs, they are no doubt causing more automobile accidents because they have slower reaction times and impaired nervous system function due to the drugs. In other words, they are not the healthy, alert drivers that we should have on the roads. They're out driving around with rather obvious safety impairments. Or, in the case of antidepressants, they may be violent time bombs just ready to be ticked off by some other driver. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Other people who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, including child abuse, criminal assaults such as rape, terrorist acts, automobile accidents, and airplane crashes, may also suffer from PTSD. The symptoms include anxiety, which is often intertwined with depression, as well as a tendency to be easily startled, have flashbacks and nightmares, be sensitive to noise, be hypervigilant, feel emotionally numbed, or have panic attacks.
Psychological Tips
Post-traumatic stress disorder is serious. The earlier it is treated, however, the quicker a person's recovery is likely to be. |
Melody Petersen
See book keywords and concepts |  Prevent automobile accidents caused by drivers impaired by the effects of their medications.
The FDA should require a clear, bold warning against driving on the bottles of prescription or over-the-counter medications that cause drowsiness, dizziness, or any other side effect that can make it dangerous to drive. The warning should include a prominent symbol, like a bright red triangle, that patients can't miss.
States also need tough penalties for physicians who fail to warn patients not to drive after taking these medications as well as for patients who don't heed their doctors'warnings. | | One patient reported having five or six automobile accidents while taking a daily dose of 3,600 milligrams, twice the government's recommended maximum. A pharmacist reported that another patient taking high doses of Neurontin had suffered a concussion in an accident. A woman reported that her husband, a diabetic, had died. The forty-three-year-old man had sometimes suffered from hypoglycemia in the middle of the night, his wife had explained. Before taking Neurontin, this had not been a problem, she said. | | On a daily basis, prescription pills are estimated to kill more than 270 Americans—more than twice as many as are killed in automobile accidents. Prescription medicines, taken according to doctors' instructions, kill more Americans than either diabetes or Alzheimer's disease.
America has become "a grossly overprescribed nation," says Dr. Arnold Relman, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. "Again and again you see examples where patients get far more medication than they need. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Worldwide more deaths per year are linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents. Health effects range from subtle biochemical and physiological changes to difficulty breathing; aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions; birth defects; damage to the immune, neurological, or reproductive system; and cancer.
In 2007, UCLA researchers published a stunning report that said exposure to a combination of diesel exhaust and high blood cholesterol increases the risk for heart attack and stroke far more than exposure to either factor alone. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  During this time he also served on the board of the Center for Risk Analysis at Harvard University—which specializes in statistical studies of comparative risk and what it calls "cost-effectiveness analysis," weighing, for example, the risk from automobile accidents versus chemical exposure, and advocating policies that reflect the greater acute danger from the former. The center acts as an intellectual farm team for advocates of environmental deregulation, and has provided some of President George W. Bush's key regulatory-agency appointments. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Years ago, in the early 1980s, when cholesterol-lowering drugs first hit the mass market, studies found an increase in suicides, homicides, and automobile accidents. But those results were somehow overlooked in the rush to prescribe these "wonder" meds.
At the 2005 American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), I attended a lecture by a prominent cardiologist, Dr. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | I believe that increased diabetic deaths, increased emergency room visits, increased automobile accidents due to hypoglycemia, and increased "dead in bed" syndrome are not coincidental. A large percentage of the diabetic population could maintain lower glycohemoglobin levels (Ales), have less incidence of hypoglycemia, and have lower maintenance costs using natural insulin analog protocols. It is interesting to note that rDNA beef or pork analogs could be made using the E. coli or yeast process. The result would be (a) unpatentable and, therefore, (b) less profitable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That dwarfs the number of Americans killed by terrorists, automobile accidents, murders, and all forms of violent crime combined. Modern medicine is, astoundingly, the fourth leading cause of death in this country.
Today, a Texas jury said, "Enough is enough!" It sent a message that Big Pharma can no longer ignore: when you manufacture and sell a product that outright kills people, it's going to cost you. Just like it did Big Tobacco. Most likely, Big Pharma, has only seen the beginning of this backlash. |
Eric R. Braverman
See book keywords and concepts |  She had suffered a broken arm after a fall while skiing two years before, and she'd had two automobile accidents in the last eighteen months. Nancy's family had a history of stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Her Braverman Nature Assessment identified her acetylcholine nature, and blood tests revealed a normal estrogen level, due to the Premarin (which we replaced with a natural bioidentical form of estrogen), but identified deficiencies in growth hormone and progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and calcitonin (Miacalcin). Tests also uncovered osteopenia—the early stage of osteoporosis. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  Drowsiness accounts for 200,000 to 400,000 automobile accidents every year and is responsible for two-thirds of all industrial mishaps, most common among shift workers in the early morning hours. People who take sleeping pills on a regular basis are 50 percent more likely than other people to die in accidents. Sleeping pills are also the third most commonly used means in suicide.2 Many people go to bed late and get up early to exercise to try to be healthy, but the reality is that in most cases those people would be better off to sleep more and exercise less. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  On a more individual level, physical triggers are one of the most common catalysts of the psychosomatic process. automobile accidents, falls, physical abuse, and repetitive motion in the workplace are examples of physical triggers that often result in chronic pain syndromes.
Mr. S is a forty-two-year-old construction worker who slipped on the ice and fell backward, landing on his back, while at work. He experienced immediate moderate low back pain, but over the next several days his pain worsened to the point where he had trouble walking and sleeping despite pain medication. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Are estimated to cause over 16,000 automobile accidents annually in America. Elavil and Endep cause eye pain, light-headedness, drowsiness, fainting, hallucinations, difficult urination, and constipation. Elavil/amitriptyline and Trofini 1/imipramine cause drowsiness, dry mouth, constipation, and impaired urination.
Anti-Diabetic Medications Diabinase. Micronase, Glucatrol, and DiaBeta used in type 2 adult-onset diabetes, increase the risk of fatal heart attack 2.5 times.
DietAid Phenylpropanolamine is dangerous if taken with decongestants and coffee. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Drowsiness accounts for 200,000 to 400,000 automobile accidents every year, and is responsible for two-thirds of all industrial mishaps, most common among shift workers in the early morning hours. Sleeping pills are also the third most commonly used means in suicide and are implicated in one-third of all drug-related suicide attempts and deaths.
Q| Over-the-counter sleep aids can cause a wide range of side effects, including agitation, confusion, depression, dry mouth, and worsening of symptoms of enlarged prostate. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Is it automobile accidents or AIDS? No, each of them claim only 41,000 lives every year.2 America's number-four killer is adverse drug reactions to properly prescribed medication, with more than 100,000 estimated deaths per year. And if you add the 80,000 deaths caused by improperly prescribed or administered medication, adverse drug events become the number-three leading cause of death in this country.3 In comparison, 56,000 people were killed during the ten years of the Vietnam War and just under 3,000 people were killed on September 11,2001, by terrorist attacks. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  That's more than automobile accidents, fires, alcohol-related deaths, murder, suicide, AIDS, cocaine, and heroin combined.2
Cigarettes cause lung cancer. They also cause heart disease, emphysema, bronchitis, miscarriages, and cancer of the uterus, cervix, mouth, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas.1
You don't even have to smoke. Secondhand smoke causes 50,000 deaths among nonsmokers each year in the United States.4 It also aggravates a million cases of asthma, and creates 25,000 new ones. | | Hospital brochures don't usually mention this, but the number of Americans who die each year from infections they picked up in a hospital is greater than the number who died in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War, and more than four times the number killed in automobile accidents each year.64
We are trapped in a vicious cycle. The levels of resistant bacteria in hospitals are accelerating at a spell-binding rate. Trying to cope, hospitals are using higher doses and employing ever more antibiotics, particularly the broad-spectrum types. But this only accelerates the development of
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Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Other causes include parasites, automobile accidents, and other physical injury.
The most frequent complication associated with lymphedema is cellulitis, or streptococcal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Patients will run a high fever; the arm or leg will turn red. Other complications include leaking of lymph fluid, known medically as lymphorrhea; some people leak fluid all the time. Rarely, patients develop malignant tumors in the swollen arm or leg, so-called lymph angiosarcoma.
Lymphedema should be treated immediately, as it can be life-threatening. |
the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
See book keywords and concepts |  They're the greatest ways to crack teeth and give you a toothache—more than automobile accidents or football or anything," Dr. Haywood says. Those hard popcorn seeds can hide in a handful scooped from the bottom of the bowl, he points out, and ice puts a brittle freeze on your teeth just before you bite down.
Put aside your fear. Contrary to how horribly anguishing everyone thinks they are, today's root canals, in which the dentist or endodontist removes the damaged tooth nerve and pulp, are painless, Dr. Germain says. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Reassuringly, most public health experts rate the risk to children's health from environmental agents as significantly low on the list of possible causes of disease or death—significantly lower than risks posed by childhood infections, automobile accidents, or accidents in the home.
However, because the risks of childhood exposures to environmental agents may possibly contribute to cancer, chronic illness, and intellectual deficits, it is important to scrutinize the sources of potential threats. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, people with sleep apnea are significantly more likely to be involved in automobile accidents than other people, probably due to the exhaustion it creates. Problems with concentration and memory are not uncommon. Sleep apnea contributes to the risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems, and stroke.
If you suffer from extreme drowsiness and fatigue for which you can find no explanation, you may be suffering from sleep apnea and should seek a doctor's evaluation, diagnosis, and, if appropriate, treatment. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Police report erratic driving and inappropriate behavior following automobile accidents in individuals who have no apparent evidence of alcohol or sedative hypnotic ingestion. "
"... The defense attorneys in the majority of cases claim that their clients were not guilty either by reason of diminished capacity or of insanity (drug-induced psychosis) [my emphasis J. With defendants showing bizarre and violent behavior and sometimes defendants claiming amnesia to the event, (given the unique properties of [this drug])... | | People have fallen from buildings, smashed through glass doors, been involved in automobile accidents, climbed out onto fire escapes, etc. On occasion persistent aggressive behavior is directed towards specific individuals (such as seen in stalking, another report from friends and families of Prozac patients). Various violent activities exhibited by sleepwalkers have been noted and reported: attempted strangling of a spouse and repeated stabbing of a five year old cousin by a 14 year old boy were both attributed to sleepwalking episodes (Oswald and Evans, 1985). |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  People with ADD are significantly more likely to have automobile accidents than people without it because people with ADD have trouble controlling their angry impulses. ADD likely plays a major role in what is now labeled "Road Rage." Individuals with ADD have less impulse control, so if they experience a sudden burst of anger, they are likely to act on that angry impulse rather than control it. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Toddlers and preschoolers are at especially high risk to be injured in pedestrian automobile accidents. They frequently run out into the street after a toy, pet, or older child without regard to oncoming cars. Young children (up to about age seven or so) must be closely supervised if they play near streets and should be accompanied by an adult when crossing the street. Children over age seven should be taught street-crossing skills (how to look for traffic, wait for the light, and so forth) but should still not be allowed to cross streets with heavy traffic on their own. |
Thomas J. Moore
See book keywords and concepts |  The largest competing accident hazard is automobile accidents, which injure about 95,000 people every year severely enough to require hospitalization.20 That means you are ten times more likely to be put in the hospital by prescription drugs than because of an automobile accident. Put another way, each person has a 26 percent lifetime risk'that a prescription drug will cause an injury severe enough to require hospitalization. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
See book keywords and concepts | | Adverse reactions to medications recommended by physician account for 659,000 patients hospitalized each year and 16,000 automobile accidents. Over 61,000 people suffer the symptoms of Parkinson's disease induced by pharmaceuticals, but the tragedy of our inefficiency is shamefully exposed by the fact that each year 176,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them by their doctors. This is iatrogenia (death caused by doctor error)! These numbers are drawn from errors recorded in doctors charts. |
Michael Janson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Side effects of medications kill more people annually than automobile accidents. Unnecessary surgery (heart disease and other conditions) has significant mortality while it also drives up health care costs. This approach to health care also takes the power and responsibility for your health out of your control.
Your Personal Power for Health
The intensity of debate in government circles that revolves around solving the "health care crisis" is misguided, misinformed, and misnamed. |
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