Doctors need to prescribe more exercise than drugs
Instead of easy-to-prescribe drugs, should doctors be prescribing more exercise to many patients? I've said that for years, and in an odd twist, the American Medical Association and others are now saying the same thing.Perhaps its an overload of patients that cause many doctors to just write a prescription instead of the hard task of telling people to exercise -- who knows.
The new push for exercise should be prescribed to virtually all patients, according to the AMA. That is awesome and it's something I completely agree with. Now, if we could get all these processed foods out of people's kitchens...
A report released yesterday concluded that pharmaceutical sales in the U.S. will drop to a third of global sales in 2008. In 2005, that share percent was 50, so we're looking at a 17percent drop in just three years. I wonder why that is?
When the National Health Service in Britain planned to switch patients to lower-cost generic drugs instead of name-brand prescription products, the pharmaceutical industry did not take it lightly.
It's a shame that the pharmaceutical industry is focused on sales instead of helping patients, but that is what has been happening for years now. Why on earth are
Late last week, the FDA issued a safety alert over Pfizer's Zyvox antibiotic product which found a higher chance of death in seriously ill patients after being given the drugs. Although the results came from clinical trials of the medicine, this is yet another disturbing situation about prescription drugs that have very unfortunate side effects.










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