For decades, women were frequently given drugs in a treatment plan dubbed “hormone replacement therapy” (HRT) to relieve symptoms associated with menopause. The demand for HRT treatment declined, as did the incidence of breast cancer in many countries, when, starting in the late 1990s, a series of research reports – including the famed US Women’s [...]
Ever since the 1988 research that suggested that some high risk patients who took daily aspirin had fewer heart attacks, drug companies that make and market aspirin have tried hard to convince people that “an aspirin a day keeps the heart attack away.” While the researchers of the original study never recommended the once-a-day aspirin [...]
Americans’ medicines are increasingly manufactured in developing countries, where oversight is lower than in the US, according to a white paper by the Pew Health Group. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates 40% of finished drugs and 80% of active ingredients and bulk chemicals used in US drugs come from overseas. The white [...]
While patients often take drugs to lower stomach acid and reduce the chances they’ll develop ulcers from taking their anti-inflammatory drugs for conditions such as arthritis, the combination may be causing major problems for their small intestines, researchers from McMaster University have found. A team from the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute has found [...]
For decades, the medical industry has tried to convinced healthy people to take an aspirin a day to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the use of low-dose aspirin raises the risk for GI bleeding, with the risk being increased further with accompanying use of [...]
