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Ebola has arrived in the USA. But much more of a risk, serious life threatening illnesses may strike people at any time. Would you consider taking new untested drugs, like the Ebola patients have done here in America?
For a discussion about this, see my latest article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/ebola-and-life-threatenin_b_5891372.html .
we have all read about breakthrough drugs. What are they and should a person try to get them. For my tips about them, see my recent article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/dr-carys-6-tips-about-bre_b_5666995.html
Prescription medicines are becoming more expensive. New medicines may cost up to $10,000 per month, and even older generic medicines have had price increases, or been moved to specialty drugs with higher copays.
Because of this many patients are making the error of not taking all the medicine as prescribed, or taking only half doses, or even stopping the medicine without letting the doctor know. This is dangerous.
For a discussion of the problem and…
In America, use of vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbs is common, ranging from 10 to 95%. In my practice it is about 50%. But shockingly, a new study http://bit.ly/YVzEAx shows that between 20% to 77% of people who were using complementary or alternative medicines did NOT tell their doctor about which complementary or alternative therapies they were taking. People said they kept this a secret because the doctor never asked, or they were afraid of…
In America we face periodic shortages – of different foods, gasoline, jobs, loans, and controversially either taxes or spending cuts. but now we are experiencing shortages of drugs because of poor reimbursement of inexpensive generic drugs (which does not provide manufacturers with enough profit to promote production) and limits on factories and importation. Now we know that these shortages can…
New drugs offer promising benefits but potentially greater risk side effects
Every day we read about new drugs that have been approved by the FDA for different diseases. This is especially common in anti-cancer drugs, where many new treatments are currently reaching the market.
Are new drugs better than older drugs? Each of these new drugs has met the FDA criteria for improving outcomes compared to standard treatments. But many times these standard treatments are…
I’m often asked whether or not a person should take vitamins. You probably have asked yourself this very question. You’ve also likely read countless articles say why you absolutely should take vitamins, and heard just as many reports about why you should absolutely never take vitamins. What is a person to believe?
Dr. J. Gaziano and coworkers studied over 14,000 male physicians for a period of over 14 years. Half of them took multivitamins, and…
The cost of prescription medications have been rising at an alarming rate. Many patients now refuse to take their medications, or are unable to because of costs. They delay reordering their medicines or cut down on the amounts of medicines that they are taking, putting their health at…
Can you trust the medicine you’re taking? Thanks the recent fungal meningitis outbreak (allegedly due to tainted drugs), people everywhere are taking more time to examine their pills and potions they ingest, even asking their physicians whether or not they even need the drug. And they should question!
It’s vitally important to be considerate of everything pharmaceutical you put in your body, but it can be difficult to know what to ask. To be more…