Hot on HuffPost Healthy Living:

 

prescription drugs

Rising prescription drug costs cause consumers to limit use

One thing I've been critical of in recent years has been the incredible costs of prescription drugs. The profit margins on many blockbuster drugs is ... Read More »

Splitting pills to cut the costs

I thank my lucky stars that I'm not on any medications. But my father takes meds every day to help manage several chronic conditions. The co-pays are ... Read More »

More kids taking long-term prescription drugs

"There's increasing use of medication in children the last 20 years, but does that mean we're treating them successfully or that we're ... Read More »

Do you trust Internet "pharmacies?"

Have you ever bought prescription-level drugs from a website or from some overseas source? While the FDA may say on and on that these drugs may not be ... Read More »

Merck's Arcoxia found to be too risky

It seems like the more popular some pharmaceutical drugs become, the more and more we hear about the side effects of certain drugs that make many of ... Read More »

Are most new drugs being inspired by nature?

It's kind of hard to understand that most newer prescription drugs were actually inspired by natural processes, but now that I think about it, it ... Read More »

Teens changing from illicit drugs to prescription ones

Changes in the way some kids get their drug fix has caused some experts to start looking at ways to prevent teens from getting their hands on ... Read More »

Medicine as a profit center

Are pharmaceutical drugs in the business of making profits? Sure they are, and I am of the belief that prevention is the key to beating disease (based ... Read More »

Medical schools starting to warn of sales pitches from pharmeceutical companies

Are doctors wined-n-dined by pharmaceutical sales reps these days? Of course -- sales representatives have sales quotas to meet just like car ... Read More »