The World’s Best-selling Medicines

Sales of prescription medicines worldwide rose 7% to $602 billion, according to IMS health, a pharmaceutical information and consulting company. The United States still accounts for the lion’s share of that, with $252 billion in annual sales, but sales in it and the other nine biggest markets grew by only 5.7%. But emerging markets [...]

Brain Injury Researchers Study Simple Polymer Method

Copyright (c) 2008 Katie Kelley A recent issue of The Journal of Biological Engineering highlighted the work of two scientists from Purdue University who have been studying the effects of a simple polymer on treating traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients. The scientists were using sterile water mixed with Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and injecting the [...]

Don?t Settle for ?It?s Your Hormones Honey!?

Written by Chicagohealers.com practitioner Dr Diane Meyer – Going from doctor to doctor and hearing “It’s your hormones honey,” made me want to scream!  As an educated person, degreed in Psychology and Dentistry, I knew there were answers I wasn’t getting. The many doctors I consulted with were stymied, as my persistent and chronic [...]

Yaz/yasmin

The very popular birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin are coming under fire lately with an increased number of pharmaceutical error claims of health problems related to the drugs. Both Yaz/Yasmin are both combined oral contraceptives, which contain the same active ingredients drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol. The primary difference is that Yaz has only [...]