Drugs & Medications Articles

Atrial fibrillation is a common heart condition for which a blood-thinning drug warfarin is commonly prescribed. Recent research has unearthed a potential side effect of warfarin- increase in the risk of dementia.

The frightening finding of recent medical research is that even with no history of heart disease and normal cholesterol levels, you are at risk for a heart attack.

Effexor XR® (Venlafaxine HCL) is a medication available to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder.

Gamma hydroxybutyrate, or simply GHB, is a very powerful, rapidly acting central nervous system depressant. It was first synthesized in the 1920s and was used as a pain reliever.

Appetite suppressants, also called sympathomimetics, are used in the short-term treatment of obesity.

Vitamins, as we all know, are vital, but some of us don't have the ability to make the enzymes needed to use the B vitamin folic acid. For us, there is a safe, effective, inexpensive, and side effect free supplement called methylfolate.

Most people don't suffer side effects of statin medications. But for those who do, cholesterol lowering diets can make them work, just not in the ways you might expect.

When suffering through your chronic insomnia, many medications are available but can also be linked tolerance. Fear not, there are a number of great OTC pills to consider that will not lead to the same type of dependence.

Depression is defined as a mental illness when the feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair persist and obstruct a person’s ability to function normally.

Since its discovery by a team of scientists in Croatia in the 1980's, the antibiotic azithromycin has been used tens of millions of times to fight infections with success. Overuse, however, makes it no longer a first-line medication for infections.