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11/22/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Age-old recommendation of taking one aspirin a day revealed as a “medical myth” with zero real benefits

For years, healthy adults have been advised to take a daily aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, cancer and more. But a large, international study has shown that taking aspirin everyday is no way to improve health outcomes in low-risk populations. Indeed, it turns out that people do not, in fact, need to take […]

09/28/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Study: Metformin useless in improving beta cell dysfunction in childhood diabetes

Another study shows yet another proof that pharmaceutical drugs are ineffective in addressing certain health conditions, particularly diabetes drugs. In a study published in the journal Diabetes Care, metformin and insulin failed to stop the decline of insulin production in newly diagnosed children with Type 2 diabetes. Researchers continue to search for ways to prevent […]

09/20/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Exposure to synthetic vitamins during periods of rapid growth damages children’s hormones, impacting immunity, development

Everyone wants the best for their children, but dosing them with synthetic vitamins early in life may be doing them more harm than good, a study in the journal Physiology International reported. In the paper, György Csaba of Semmelweis University in Hungary revealed that exposure to synthetic lipid-soluble vitamins could adversely affect multiple organ systems later in life. Lipid-soluble […]

08/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky

The domino effect of the opioid epidemic: Thousands of American kids are being forced into foster care due to parents’ addiction

According to a new study, the opioid crisis is now affecting children who are being dragged from their homes and into foster care because of parental neglect caused by addiction. The study authors note that an addiction to prescription painkillers (e.g. oxycodone and morphine) is partly responsible for the sudden increase in deaths caused by overdose […]

08/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Researchers question results of drug trial as anti-nausea medication, approved for use by pregnant women, appears to be ineffective

“Previously unpublished information” about one of the most commonly prescribed medicine for nausea in pregnancy implies that the drug is actually ineffective. Thousands of pages of documents retrieved from Health Canada about a randomized clinical trial reported in 2010 suggests that pyridoxine-doxylamine was effective in reducing nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. The documents were acquired by researchers from St. Michael’s […]

08/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Study shows children are typically prescribed two antibiotics for pneumonia unnecessarily, with no proven additional benefit in health outcomes

Antibiotic resistance is an alarming trend, and according to a JAMA Pediatrics study, the combination of two antibiotics usually “prescribed to treat community-acquired pneumonia in children” is unnecessary. The use of a single antibiotic is often all a patient needs. Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have revealed that administering amoxicillin on its own is a better option compared to […]

08/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Group B strep causes 150,000 preventable stillbirths and infant deaths each year, according to research

According to a recent study, there is a vaccine that can prevent 231,000 infant and maternal cases of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) bacteria. At least one in five pregnant women around the world carry GBS, which is a major, but preventable, cause of maternal and infant ill health worldwide. The study involved more than 100 researchers from […]

08/14/2018 / By Zoey Sky

New study on aspirin has contradictory results, finding both increased and decreased risks for use in diabetic patients

Based on research that was presented at the American College of Cardiology‘s 67th Annual Scientific Session, individuals who have both Type 2 diabetes and heart failure, and take an aspirin daily, seem to have a lower risk of dying or being hospitalized for heart failure. But surprisingly enough, the data showed that the intake of aspirin […]

08/03/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Flour made from orchid tubers can protect the liver from drug-induced toxicity

A severe side effect of drug treatment is liver damage. In some cases, a specific medication that a physician may have prescribed to treat a disease may make it worse for your liver – the organ primarily responsible for purifying toxins in the blood. One such case is isoniazid, a commonly used drug for treating tuberculosis. While […]

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