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Xanax (Alprazolam) is the #1 most prescribed psychiatric medicine in the United States. Overall it is in the Top 10 of all prescribed medications in the U.S. Over 50 million prescriptions are written for Xanax each year… View full post on All Stories

McMaster University researchers have discovered a new drug target that may be effective at preventing the onset of Huntington’s disease, working much the same way heart medications slow the progression of heart disease and reduce heart attacks… View full post on All Stories

The Texas HIV Medication Program (THMP) established in 1987 has been a source of financial support and security for low income residents of Texas living with HIV/AIDS by providing assistance with paying for their life sustaining medications. This… View full post on All Stories

Jerry was in fine form as he stood at center stage, his hand resting on the microphone stand, waiting for the laughter to subside. He had invited me to watch him perform stand-up at this West Los Angeles comedy club, and he didn’t disappoint. But his wife, Sandy, wasn’t laughing. She leaned across the small [...]

“There is no place called away.” It is a statement worthy of Gertrude Stein, but University of Washington atmospheric chemist Dan Jaffe says it with conviction: None of the contamination we pump into the air just disappears. It might get diluted, blended, or chemically transformed, but it has to go somewhere. And when it comes [...]

Combination of statins and niacin, both cholesterol modifying medications, don’t reduce the chances of having a heart attack, according to findings by the AIM-HIGH trial conducted by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). These findings prompted the NHLBI to stop its trial a year and a half early. View full post on All [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Winston-Salem, NC, United States (AHN) – An assessment of American drivers finds one in five drivers on the road today cannot meet the basic requirements to get a driver’s license. That means nearly 40 million American drivers – roughly 18 percent – would not fail the written drivers [...]

Alcoholism and addiction are diseases of perception. With the exception of a handful of narcotic addicts, who actually got hooked on medications they were initially taking for legitimate medical problems, most of us started drinking and drugging… View full post on All Stories

I believe the main reason we struggle with epidemic sleep disorders is our failure to examine fundamental misconceptions that inform our understanding of and approach to sleep. These misconceptions are rooted in a tendency to define sleep negatively — that is, in terms of what it’s not. Like our conception of health, which is generally [...]

MONTREAL – The Quebec government is revamping the way cancer medications are evaluated.The new approach aims to redress a serious flaw in the old method — and will now include the opinions of … View full post on All Stories