Painkillers
Is Aspirin the Target of a Discrediting Campaign?
I suspect this popular medicine has been the target of a discrediting campaign for the simple reason it competes with newer, far more expensive blood thinners and pain relievers that ...
Aluminum: The Brain Toxin Found Everywhere, Ways to Remove
Feeling confused, weak, or losing your memory and concentration? You may be suffering from aluminum toxicity. Aluminum is an omnipresent metal, found not only in your cookware—as most people already ...
Clinicians Discuss Major Treatments for Long COVID–The Effective and the Questionable
Long COVID has posed a challenge for doctors to treat. Critical care specialist Dr. Paul Marik has labeled long COVID a syndrome rather than a disease due to its complicated ...
Aspirin Can Lower Risk of Heart Disease in Some Diabetic Patients
More than 65 percent of total mortality from diabetes is due to cardiovascular disease, including fatal atherothrombotic events such as acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), ischemic stroke (due to reduced blood ...
Immunologist and Biochemist Speaks out About Dangers of Acetaminophen for Children
The use of acetaminophen in babies and in children would never have been approved if it had been tested using current safety standards, claims William Parker, Ph.D. Parker, who is ...
Doctors Weigh in on the Right Way to Stop Prescribed Opioids
Opioid addiction and the illness and death associated with the misuse of these drugs is a growing health crisis. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made ...
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs May Trigger Heart Damage
These medications can increase one's risk of heart damage, especially for diabetics
Heart Disease Linked to Common Drug Used by Millions
Pain and coughs are as common as the medication we can prescribe for them, but taking the wrong medicine may induce heart disease. Drugs come with side effects, sometimes toxic, ...
An Opioid Success Story: Efforts to Minimize Painkillers After Surgery Appear to Be Working
The opioid epidemic has been wreaking misery and death across the nation for years. In 2017 alone, opioid overdoses killed more than 47,000 people – 10,000 more deaths than were ...
Moving Away From Opioids to Treat Dental Pain
By Ernie Mundell Many opioid abusers cite short-term, legitimate use of an opioid for relief of joint or dental pain as their "gateway" into addiction. Now, research done at one ...
Antidepressants Overprescribed, Linked to Suicide Risk
Cases of depression and anxiety increased by 25 percent in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic alone by some counts, up from 1 in 20 adults worldwide, and the ...
Pain Killers Causing More Pain?
New peer-reviewed science suggests anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids may cause more pain than they relieve