Men throughout Texas enjoy lots of physical activity, either while working or playing. Many men begin their active lifestyle at a young age and don't want to see it end. However, time waits for no one, and age can bring unavoidable changes to a man's body that make it...
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Defective Drugs
Potentially dangerous drug receiving media attention
San Antonio residents may have seen recent reports on a potentially dangerous drug. Ostensibly, these stories are aimed at discouraging abuse of the drug, but they may actually have the opposite effect. The drug in question is a painkiller called Zohydro. Recently...
Drug companies seek favoritism from doctors
Doctors are constantly inundated with incentives from drug companies who advocate prescribing their products. However, residents of San Antonio must be aware that the methods employed to influence doctors are a matter of grave concern. Drug companies often use highly...
FDA, manufacturers may not know all dangerous drug interactions
When a patient visits their doctor in San Antonio, they might receive a new prescription. The medication they are prescribed might just be new to that person or might be brand new to the market. With any new drug, doctors, pharmacists and companies need to be careful...
Migraine drug class changed after IQ deficiencies found
A migraine drug that has been seen as very effective for many people in preventing or ridding themselves of chronic migraine symptoms has recently had it's classification changed by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA found that pregnant women who took the drug...
Drug company cares more about sales than the truth
Drug company Merck, maker of cholesterol medicines that rake in billions, faced accusations that it did not release "bad news," as the Associated Press characterizes it, about its cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin. It turns out that the cheap cholesterol pills do...
Good advertising trumps bad drugs
Good marketing and advertising occasionally trumps quality. It appears that way when it comes to ads for the drug Pradaxa. In a survey conducted by the Association of Medical Media (AMM), doctors said these Pradaxa ads were the most effective. There were six criteria:...
No antidote for bleeding makes Pradaxa a ‘truly defective drug’
As Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk report for Bloomberg Businessweek, hundreds of patients who suffered bad side effects from taking Pradaxa to prevent a stroke have sued drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim, which has made more than $1 billion in sales off Pradaxa...
Can You Trust Studies About Drug Safety Associated with Drug Makers?
Watch out for studies testing the safety of pharmaceutical drugs when the studies are associated with the drug maker. In Sue Hughes's report on TheHeart.org, a study conducted by Trinity Partners Consultants found that Pradaxa was better than warfarin when it came to...
Health Care Journalist Accuses Drug Maker of ‘Disease Mongering’
The cold remedy Zicam has come under Gary Schwitzer's crosshairs on MedPageToday, in an article in which he lambasts Matrixx Initiatives for the marketing and advertising methods it uses in selling Zicam. This isn't the first time a drug maker has come under scrutiny...