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Doctors suffer from the God-complex. Michael Foucault, the twentieth century iconoclast had shown in his famous book Discipline and Punish how and why medicos think they own they are gods. Foucault pointed out that doctors feel they know us inside...
The number of pandemics, epidemics, viruses that have hit humanity causes less threat than the amount of drugs available for their cure. It is the responsibility of the drug companies to speed up with Tamiflu, Avastin and the likes. In this delay, the...
A special report appearing in a section of the UK press talks of growing drug addiction among Londoners. Based on surveys, this report claims that no less than 50,000 Londoners have taken to cocaine cracking, both by way of injection and smoking. While...
Last time your friend stopped you from smoking citing that smoking is injurious to your helath because of the presence of nicotine. That’s true. But the researchers have something else to say about nicotine.
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Over a long time now, we hear about players indulging in intake of stimulants in order to enhance their performance levels. Unknowingly, that drugs not only mar their career but also have certain side effects that could even lead to death. A...
After death of a 57-year-old woman from Vancouver Island, one should be very careful about buying drugs online. Some Health agencies and experts in Canada have given some guidelines to people who are interested in buying drugs through Internet.
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Irregularity in using breast cancer drug Tamoxifen has come out causing a great concern to the researchers. Researchers have come to know that about 20 percent of the women who are prescribed Tamoxifen, stop taking it within the first year despite the...
Going for chemotherapy to treat breast cancer may most likely lead to cessation of menstruation in some women but such women need not to worry since, researchers believe that cessation of menstruation after chemotherapy is a good indication, since such...
The Food and Drug Association has recently come up with a proposal that allows seriously ill patients access to unapproved drugs. This proposal also allows a charge for these therapies, though this charge can only cover development costs not profit....
Think when baby boomers get highly involved in drugs and in contrast lower involvement of teens. What do you predict?
Their rate rose to 4.4 percent taking illicit drugs aging from 50 to 59 as provided by a survey held in US. In contrast, fall in...
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