FDA to Mine Medicare and Insurer Data for Drug Problems (PharmaStats) What to Do When You Feel a Bladder Infection Coming On (Lively Women) Happy as a clam: Increased antioxidants and extreme longevity in the Arctic quahog (Ouroboros) NSAID Reduction of AD Not Dependent on Suppression of Beta Amyloid (Pathophilia) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog [...]

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Check out this video that some high school kids put together for their health class, warning teens of the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. Pretty decent production values. When I was in school, we were still watching filmstrips and being given smelly copies from the mimeograph machine.

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Is Big Pharma Bad Medicine? (Investment Bloggers’ Digest) IMS projects seven potential blockbusters (MM&M) Hearing: Drugging of Foster Children (Alliance For Humam Research Protection) Strange Bedfellows? Pharma Likes Those Democrats (Pharmalot) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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Lipitor was the most frequently prescribed brand-name drug in the United States last year, with 50 million prescriptions being filled. Vytorin was right up there, with 20 million. Add in all the other statins and you’re up to an amazing 150 million. As you might expect, we’ve had a fair amount of discussion in the [...]

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With the release of the much-anticipated game Haze for Playstation 3, know-it-all commentators have a new, ready-made scapegoat for the upsurge in teens taking prescription drugs illegally. That’s right — now they can blame video games! Specifically, they can blame Haze, the plot of which is described as follows: The game revolves around Mantel Global [...]

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Health 2.0: The Machine is Us (Socialmediamakers’s Weblog) E-Health 2.0 Is Looking Healthy (Wireless Healthcare) E-health 2.0 report launched (Release Zero Blog) Hypertension, Health 2.0, Putting it all together visually (Ted Eytan, MD) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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Yeah, I know; I’ve written about this topic before — more than a few times. But I feel compelled to do so again. Frankly, I’m mad as heck and I can’t take it any more. Just as there have been past hysterias blaming the Internet for sexual predators, pornography, political polarization, celebrity obsession, obesity (go [...]

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With all the buzz (some good but mostly bad) about Celebrex out there, it’s surprising how few people seem to be aware of an alternative arthritis treatment called Euflexxa. I just ran a Google search on the two terms, and while Celebrex returned 11,300,000 results, Euflexxa came back with just 14,800. That’s a shame. More [...]

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I had not seen the Wired magazine article on “super-charging your brain” with the chart labeled “Do the Right Drugs” until I read about it in the New York Times. I’m still a little blown away by what I read. The chart lays out the pros and cons of eight drugs that it says can [...]

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Being ‘bumped’: the new alternative to redundancy (Pharma Focus) Big Pharma: Why So Much About This? (Pasadena Therapist) Big Pharma: drug pusher (Later On) Who’ll Cure Our Kids, Big Pharma Or Small Farmers? (Open Left) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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