Drugs & Medications Articles

Research studies find that American doctors make errors in writing prescriptions at rates of 5 to 81 percent. Most errors in prescribing medications are caught at the pharmacy, but a shocking number of drug prescribe in error find their way to patients.

"Magical thinking" is typically employed as a pejorative term. Healthy magical thinking, can only up new possibilities through the power of the placebo effect.

Alzheimer's disease isn't really "type 3 diabetes." However, Alzheimer's may be treatable with insulin, and controlling diabetes may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's.

Popping a pain reliever is something many of us do every day, but there are good reasons to be careful with certain products.

Vaccination truthers have been publishing articles reporting that American children will soon be required to take a staggering 271 different vaccines. It is true that at least 271 vaccines are under development, but legal requirements are another matter.

The older we get, the more infections we get, and the more infections we get, the more likely it is that doctors will treat us with multiple, intravenously administered (IV) antibiotics. These life-saving medications can interact with common drugs.

Malaria is incredibly difficult to deal with because of the way the disease is spread. We can treat individuals but the disease remains to infect others. And there's been no way to inoculate people against it. Until now.

The link between the class of medications known as proton pump inhibitors and the risk of heart attack is so strong that many people should not take them, a new study says.

The widespread use of testosterone injections and patches has come under fire. The use of testosterone for "low-T" nonetheless makes sense for many men.

For nearly thirty years have been the mainstay of treatment for high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. For some people, however, they simply do not work. For people who do not respond to statins, two new drugs may be what the doctor ordered.