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Medications Archive

Medications Archive


Common Medications | Treatment: By Medication and Devices | Treatment: By Condition | Prevention | Questions and Tips | Cancer Treatment | Diabetes Treatment | Heart Treatment

Common Medications

  • Alendronate (Fosamax) for bone strength
  • Allergy shots
  • Choose the best insect repellent
  • Clarinex for allergies
  • Cold medicines
  • Diuretics
  • Hormone replacement therapy
  • Sleep medications
  • Smoking cessation drugs: bupropion
  • Statin drugs

Treatment: By Medication and Devices

  • Allergy shots
  • Alternative ways to fight the flu
  • An option for treating degenerative disc disease
  • Ankinra may help ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis
  • Arixtra: protection against post-surgical blood clots
  • Biologic agents and the treatment of autoimmune disorders
  • Botulism: killer or wonder drug?
  • Camera pill takes pictures of small intestine
  • Correcting vision with refractive eye surgery
  • Frovatriptan may offer longer relief from migraine pain
  • Heartburn: not just for adults—kids get it too
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): does it reduce heart disease risk in postmenopausal women?
  • Leukotriene inhibitors can help control asthma and relieve symptoms of allergies
  • Propecia: the baldness pill: does it work?
  • Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
  • Transdermal patches for weight loss: safe or sorry?

Treatment: By Condition

  • Allergy shots
  • Alternative ways to fight the flu
  • An option for treating degenerative disc disease
  • Asthma: tips for controlling your asthma
  • Biologic agents and the treatment of autoimmune disorders
  • Blood clots: Arixtra may offer protection against post-surgical blood clots
  • Gallstones: anatomy of a gallstone
  • Heartburn: not just for adults—kids get it too
  • High blood pressure: olmesartan to lower blood pressure
  • Leukotriene inhibitors can help control asthma and relieve symptoms of allergies
  • Migraine headache: frovatriptan may offer longer relief from migraine pain
  • Osteoporosis drug: alendronate (Fosamax) for bone strength
  • Rheumatoid arthritis: anakinra may help ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis
  • Sleep aids: what you need to know
  • The flu: drugs that fight the flu
  • Weight loss: transdermal patches for weight loss: safe or sorry?

Prevention

  • Drugs that fight the flu
  • FluMist: a painless option to the annual flu shot
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): does it reduce heart disease risk in postmenopausal women?
  • Learning more about the smallpox vaccine
  • Preventive cardiology: aspirin
  • Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
  • The avian flu vaccine
  • What are vaccines?

Questions and Tips

  • Are drugs on the net safe?
  • Beware when buying medications abroad
  • Could your depression be related to your medication?
  • Do your medications actually work?
  • Drug expiration dates: how accurate are they?
  • Drug interactions: what you need to know
  • Drug tests: don't fall victim to a "false-positive"
  • Food and medicine interactions
  • In-home pregnancy tests: your questions answered
  • Is grapefruit affecting your medications?
  • Keeping prescription drugs safe
  • Kids and caffeine: are they getting too much?
  • Medication questions? Ask the pharmacist.
  • Medications and pregnancy
  • Methamphetamine abuse
  • Off-label drug use: is it safe?
  • Over-the-counter drugs: follow the instructions
  • Pain relief medications: are they good for you?
  • Personalized medicine
  • Picking a pain reliever: which one should you take?
  • Pill splitting can save money, but talk to your doctor first
  • Preventing medical errors
  • Should you take part in a clinical research trial?
  • Taking prescription medications
  • Testing medications: who's being left out?
  • Tips for safely buying medications online
  • Tips for safely using medications
  • Too many pills on your plate? How to simplify your medication regimen
  • Unconventional treatment: who pays for 'other kinds' of care?

Cancer Treatment

  • Coping with hair loss from chemotherapy
  • Coping with the side effects of chemotherapy
  • Fulvestrant—another option for breast cancer treatment
  • MammoSite®: an internal radiation device for breast cancer treatment

Diabetes Treatment

  • Dermagraft helps heal diabetic foot ulcers
  • Diabetes: technologies make management easier
  • Islet-cell transplants: the end of insulin shots?

Heart Treatment

  • Drugs that may lead to heart damage
  • FDA approved heart assist pump for permanent implantation
  • Heart attack: avoiding a first heart attack with aspirin
  • Olmesartan: to lower blood pressure
  • Preventive cardiology: aspirin
  • Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
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