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Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health J. Douglas Bremner See book keywords and concepts

I have organized this book by the number of drug prescriptions written, starting with the most frequent and ending with the least prescribed of those drugs that are most commonly used. Vitamins and supplements are included at the end, and I have also covered the topic of children and medicine. The chapters themselves have been organized by classes of drugs (which have similar risk factors) prescribed for certain health conditions. Organizing material by drugs typically prescribed for these conditions will help you compare different drugs prescribed for the same condition.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, installed a thirty-four-million-dollar computerized physician ordering system to streamline drug prescriptions and reduce error rates. The hospital scrapped it in 2003, after complaints swelled into a full-blown rebellion among physicians, at least one of whom was caught making routine drug errors and perhaps didn't appreciate being exposed. Other doctors simply didn't want to make the change from pen and paper to keyboard, and at least six other hospitals have shut down computerized drug-dispensing systems.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

Very few tests have been done on drug interactions with other drugs or with common foods. drug prescriptions can be a gamble of life and death that you are risking when you enter your doctor's office. The bottom line is that all pharmaceutical drugs contain poisons that have a detrimental effect on your health. Your heart pays the ultimate price for these constantly offered and highly praised "shortcuts" to health; they cut your life short.

The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

He adds that in the majority of cases, "drug prescriptions for NSAIDS and muscle relaxants were virtually eliminated." (NSAIDs are over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen.) In addition to fibromyalgia, magnesium has been shown to affect kidney stones. In animal studies, you can induce kidney stones by reducing the amount of magnesium in the diet. Conversely, supplementing with magnesium— and ideally vitamin B6 at the same time—will prevent the recurrence of kidney stones.

Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts

Ask your primary-care doctor to supervise all of your health care, including drug prescriptions. If that isn't possible, ask one of the hospitalists to do it. Patients with one supervising doctor face fewer risks. Each time you're given medication: Show your ID bracelet. To ensure that you're getting the right drug (medical test or procedure), ask the nurse to check your ID wrist bracelet. Ask the nurse to tell you what each drug is and why you're taking it. Don't take a drug unless you're sure it's the one that you're supposed to be taking.

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

First of all, I am not a doctor, nor do I pretend to be one by putting on a white lab coat and writing drug prescriptions to patients. None of the information I present in this report should be taken as medical advice. If you have a serious medical condition, I invite you to seek out a qualified health professional, preferably someone who is open to the idea of using lifestyle changes to improve your overall state of health. You will probably find this very challenging if you limit your search of medical professionals to MDs.

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

Brandeis University "Psychotropic drug prescriptions for Teens Surge 250 Percent Over Seven Years," Journal Psychiatric Services, January 3, 2006. 11 Shankar Vedantam, "Psychiatric Drugs' Use Drops for Children," The Washington Post, October 8, 2005. 12 Ron Stein and Marc Kaufman, "Depression Drugs Safe, Beneficial, Studies Say: Suicide Risk Rejected, But Critics Question Validity of Findings," The Washington Post, January 1, 2006. 13 "FDA Stance on Antidepressant Warnings Unchanged By NIMH Suicide Findings," Pink Sheet, January 9, 2006. Volume 68, Number 002, pg-16.

America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts

I will especially appreciate your passing the book on to your physicians since they are still the ones who write the drug prescriptions. We each have a responsibility to do whatever good we can. I hope you will join me in this effort to keep America from continuing to be fooled. Getting Off Antidepressants I personally know of many individuals who simply stopped taking their antidepressant after learning of the dangers these drugs present or because they did not like their side effects. I have also known of a few cases where antipsychotics were abruptly halted.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And consider the alarming increase in drug prescriptions for children. Mark Liponis's wife, a pediatrician, recently worked at a summer camp where a full 20 percent of the boys were medicated with psychotropic drugs. These were normal, middle-class kids from normal backgrounds taking Ritalin, Cylert, Prozac, Paxil, and/or Celexa or other drugs. The problem is that for most practicing physicians, the prescription pad is their tool kit. Writing prescriptions is what they do. They don't have much else to offer someone. A doctor without a prescription pad is naked.

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson See book keywords and concepts

At this time, there was a steady decline in the use of herbal drug prescriptions containing tinctures and extracts. The more potent herbal drugs such as opium and digitalis continued to be used, not as tinctures, but as single isolated compounds: the alkaloids morphine and codeine, and the glycoside digoxin. It became far more appropriate to give patients pharmaceutical preparations, mainly in tablets and capsules, with reliable dose control, rather than plant extracts.

Rational Phytotherapy: A Reference Guide for Physicians and Pharmacists volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel See book keywords and concepts

Costs and Benefits The number of drug prescriptions covered by statutory health insurance in Germany declined by 30 % from 1992 to 2001. The costs per prescription during the same period rose by 78 %. The sharp drop in prescriptions mainly affected phytomedicines (see Table Ai in the Appendix). Initially, it was hoped that these containment measures would save money, but this has not been the case. On the contrary, the overall drug costs between 1993 and 2001 rose more sharply than during the comparable period from 1981 to 1990 (Fig. 1.7).

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

The possible explanation is as follows: "Treatment of hypertension has become the leading reason for visits to physicians as well as for drug prescriptions."11 Yearly sales of blood pressure medications are estimated to be greater than $10 billion. Since approximately 50% of patients with high blood pressure are in the borderline to mild range, prescribing the non-drug protocols described here could mean health care system savings of greater than $5 billion. Dietary and lifestyle factors Hypertension is closely related to lifestyle and dietary factors.

Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being Barnet Meltzer, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

When it doesn't, we turn to doctors for quick-fix drug prescriptions. But, as I discussed in Chapter 7, I am a big believer in the maxim "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Like fatigue, anxiety and depression can be considered wake-up calls, warning signs. Your mind, body, and spirit are trying to tell you something is wrong. They signal the need for change. As you acknowledge anxiety and depression, take into account the following four factors: 1. The choice is yours. You can heal emotional disorders, or you can medicate them.

The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause National Women's Health Network See book keywords and concepts

The National Women's Health Network is concerned that bone density screening, either intentionally or coin-cidently, hooks women into a system in which drug prescriptions are their most likely choice. It is not a coincidence that much of the information on the dangers of osteoporosis and the value of bone screening and actual bone screening equipment all are paid for by pharmaceutical companies making osteoporosis products. (See "A Case Study: The Merck Launch of Fosamax" on pages 168-169.) The Network is also concerned about the dissemination of misinformation about bone density.

Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

According to an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), "Treatment of hypertension has become the leading reason for visits to physicians as well as for drug prescriptions."11 In other words, blood-pressure-lowering drugs are big business to the drug companies and to physicians. Yearly sales of blood pressure medications are estimated to be greater than ten billion dollars.

Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet Thomas J. Moore See book keywords and concepts

Especially among the older population with many drug prescriptions, it could be dangerous to take a drug that causes a rapid heartbeat, a cardiac arrest, which can block the electrical signal to the heart to contract, or that contributes to other heart disorders. This standard eliminates all but 4 of the 14 remaining drugs. In fact, cardiac adverse effects are so widespread that this test would have eliminated 25 of the drugs all by itself. While not any absolute guarantee of safety, it is interesting to examine the four survivors.

Viral Immunity J. E. Williams, O.M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Unlike the United States where marketing practices drive sales and drug prescriptions, the Chinese tend to focus on what works and believe that clinical success motivates people to "buy." Of course, this does not completely ensure that all Chinese medicines are effective or safe, but as a general rule if a medication does not work, the Chinese practitioners won't use it. 4. China has an extensive infrastructure for the cultivation, harvesting, storage, and processing of herbs, including the preparation of extracts.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments Gary Null, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Neurosurgeons rely on surgery and drug prescriptions to alleviate back pain, but the surgical alternative should be resorted to only when all others have failed. If a neurosurgeon suggests an operation as a back pain cure, it's a good idea to get several other opinions, both from other neurosurgeons and from doctors in other fields. When making a decision on surgery versus alternative methods of coping with the pain, one must factor in the risks of the surgery and the difficulty of rehabilitation.

Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet Thomas J. Moore See book keywords and concepts

Drug prescriptions for estrogen had been rising rapidly, with use doubling in some regions of the United States over the preceding decade. Now, according to the new data, so was the incidence of endometrial cancer. Weiss wrote up the results, citing the biological evidence and the trends in estrogen use, and submitted a paper to the New England Journal of Medicine. It was politely rejected. One year later, Weiss got a curious call from the New England Journal. Would Weiss care to resubmit his paper? This time they were very interested.

The Vitamin Revolution in Health Care Michael Janson, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Some of the most popular recent drug prescriptions for depression (Prozac®, Zoloft®) are effective specifically because they result in increased levels of serotonin in the brain. Some people have speculated that the reason the FDA removed tryptophan from the market had more to do with its competition with drugs than with the isolated, temporary contamination problem. Although tryptophan is not currently available as an over-the-counter supplement for human consumption as of this writing (1995), the common dosage form that was available before the FDA ban was capsules of 500 mg.

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