A study that tracked nearly 65,000 older men and women in Washington State found chronic acetaminophen users had nearly twice the risk of developing blood cancers, after adjusting for age, arthritis and family history. Researchers say what role the drug itself plays is still uncertain.
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Warning to Parents: This Vaccine Linked to Sudden Infant Death…
Mercola argues the hepatitis B vaccine given to U.S. newborns draws an unusual number of reported complications, citing a vaccine court award of $475,000 over a case of lupus, and criticises a report suggesting doctors should spend less time answering parents' safety questions.
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Stevie Nicks Confesses: Common Remedy Turned My Hair Gray and Molted My Skin...
Stevie Nicks told the Daily Beast that eight years on Klonopin left her hands shaking without it and feeling neurologically ill, and that a 47-day hospital detox turned her hair gray and molted her skin. Mercola uses her account to argue prescription drugs can be addictive.
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The Breast Cancer Breakthrough that's Making Experts Angry
After the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said in 2009 that mammograms need not be automatic at 40, studies suggest fewer doctors recommend and fewer women in their 40s receive them. Mercola points to thermography as a possible noninvasive alternative for pre-menopausal women.
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CT scans may do more harm than good for kids with head injuries
In a study of 42,412 children with minor blunt head trauma published in Pediatrics, clinicians who observed the child before deciding on a CT ordered fewer scans than those who did not, and both groups had similar rates of clinically important traumatic brain injury.
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My New Warning: Avoid THESE Medical Treatments Whenever Possible
Dr. Mercola notes U.S. health spending reached about $7,681 per person and 16.2 percent of GDP in 2008, the highest of any industrialized country, and argues much of it buys unnecessary procedures, hospitalizations and drugs that serve corporate profit rather than health.
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One in Four Over 45 Take This Unnecessary Drug
A Mercola post citing the Harvard Health Letter: one in four Americans aged 45 and older take a cholesterol-lowering statin, roughly 32 million people. He points readers to foods that lower cholesterol and to rising fatal prescription drug overdoses in Ohio.
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What Are America's Most Popular Drugs?
Forbes reports that 10 of the most-used US medicines last year were generics, leaving only Lipitor, Plavix and Singulair among branded top-25 sellers. Prescription drug spending reached $307.4 billion in 2010, and drugmakers are shifting toward costlier cancer drugs.
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They Cause 40,000 Deaths a Year - But They're Handed Out Like Candy
Men taking antidepressants had carotid intima-media thickness about 37 microns, roughly 5 percent, greater than men not taking them, and among 59 twin pairs the difference reached 41 microns. The mechanism is unknown; Mercola uses the finding to revisit psychiatric drug risks.
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Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
Barbara Loe Fisher writes that the American Academy of Pediatrics pressed CBS by letter to pull a 15-second National Vaccine Information Center message from its Times Square screen, after which bloggers ran a petition drive. She points to AAP funding from vaccine manufacturers.
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Popular Alzheimer's Drug Proven Ineffective
A study in Archives of Neurology concluded a widely used Alzheimer's drug lacks efficacy in mild disease, yet nearly a fifth of people with mild Alzheimer's received it in 2006, and by one estimate 40% of neurologists prescribe it for mild cognitive impairment.
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Errors put infants, children at risk for overdose of painkillers (PR)
Researchers reviewed 50,462 Medicaid narcotic prescriptions for children under three and found 4.1% exceeded the expected dose. About 40% of infants younger than two months got an overdose amount, compared with 3% of older children.
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How to Dispose of Unused Medicines - FDA
Most unused drugs can go in the household trash if you take precautions first, FDA says, though a few should be flushed. Federal guidance developed with ONDCP tells consumers to follow label instructions and to check whether their city runs a drug take-back program.
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Meningitis vaccine is now approved for infants and toddlers
The FDA approved Menactra for children as young as 9 months to prevent invasive meningococcal disease from serogroups A, C, Y and W-135, given as two doses three months apart. Across four studies with over 3,700 participants, injection-site tenderness and irritability were most common.
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FDA Warns - Do NOT Use This Pain Reliever... You Could Turn Blue and Die
The FDA is receiving reports of methemoglobinemia, a serious and potentially fatal drop in the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity, in people using benzocaine sprays, gels and liquids. Cases occurred mainly in children under two given benzocaine gel for teething.
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Antidepressants may not improve all symptoms of depression (PR)
UT Southwestern researchers analyzing STAR*D data found patients who responded clearly to antidepressants still had symptoms such as insomnia, sadness and poor concentration. Lead author Shawn McClintock says residual symptoms signal a high chance of incomplete recovery.
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Each Time You are Exposed to This Machine, You Boost Your Risk of Cancer
The TSA calls airport backscatter scans safe and some doctors dismiss the dose, but Mercola notes researchers who question the manufacturers' measurements and put exposure as much as ten times higher, and the American Cancer Society's Otis Brawley, who takes a pat-down instead.
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Would you screen your kids for genetic diseases?
In a Pediatrics study, 219 parents offered a multiplex genetic test for eight common adult-onset conditions judged the benefits to their child to outweigh the risks and were moderately interested in testing. Mothers were more willing than fathers.
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