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Epilepsy and Melatonin – Yes? No? Or Maybe So?
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Most of us are familiar with melatonin and it’s purpose: To help you sleep. Or at least to help you get to sleep.
In fact, melatonin is one of the most commonly used supplements in the United States. (Lots of sleepless people out there!)
Common painkillers may fuel deadly superbugs that resist antibiotics
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A startling new study warns that two of America’s most common over-the-counter painkillers, ibuprofen (Advil) and acetaminophen (Tylenol), may have an unexpected role in one of the world’s most urgent public health crises.
In the United States, more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Tags: acetaminophen (Tylenol), common painkillers, deadly superbugs, ibuprofen (Advil)
Colds, Flu and You…
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With all the colds and flu going around, it’s not easy to figure out which medications are safe to take.
Obviously, the best way to manage medication interactions is to avoid medications that are known to cause problems.
A few medicines that you pick up off the shelf at the drug store can potentially increase the frequency of seizures in people with epilepsy, or even cause first-time seizures.
Anti-Epilepsy Drugs Lose Effectiveness Over Time…
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It may be the dose prescribed…the type of epilepsy you have…even something as simple as your age or weight.
But research shows that, over time, the effectiveness of your anti-epilepsy drug may decline.
Woman Dies Waiting 40 Hours for Care
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It’s tragic…appalling…horrific.
And it could happen to anyone.
Hopefully not you.
At Walgreens and CVS, Complaints of Medication Mistakes Go Missing…
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In Oklahoma, a State Board of Pharmacy released a complaint against a CVS pharmacy regarding a medication error made last year.
The board took the rare step of citing the pharmacy in addition to the pharmacist involved in the error.
The perils of discontinuing your epilepsy meds…
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One of the most common questions is “when can I stop taking my meds?”
Especially for those whose seizures have been under good control.
It makes sense. Because if you’re doing well, you start to wonder: “Why do I need these meds anymore”?
Trump wants tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs!
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Here’s which drugs could disappear from hospitals first…
From epidurals to life-saving cancer treatments, the results could be disastrous.
Marijuana’s time has come. ..
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“If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.” — William F. Buckley Jr.
Americans have spoken.
Congress listened.
Marijuana’s time has come.
Tags: marijuana pros and cons, medical, recreational
What you don’t know about your blood type could save your life!
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Do you know your blood type?
There’s a good chance that you don’t.
More Americans know their horoscope sign (66 percent) than their blood type (51 percent), according to a recent survey published by the medical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics.
Tags: Blood Type A, Blood Type A and B, Blood Type B, Blood Type O, health
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