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Should new drugs wear a ‘Proceed with Caution’ label?
SRxA’s Word on Health was alarmed to read a new study showing that almost a quarter of prescription drugs approved in Canada over 16 years were later slapped with serious safety warnings or yanked from...
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Doctors Deficient in Anaphylaxis Care
Having just returned from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) annual meeting, we’re spoiled for choice of news. But among all the science there was one stand out shocker. In...
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Fend off a 2nd Heart Attack with Fruit and Fiber
Each year, at least 20 million people worldwide survive a heart attack or stroke. Most of them, will then be prescribed a veritable cocktail of drugs including lipid-lowering agents, beta blockers,...
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A Ray of Sunshine?
It’s already 15 months overdue and it will be another year still before the information is public, but last week the government set out the final rule for the Physician Payment Sunshine Act...
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Emergency! Epinephrine in Anaphylaxis: under-use and inappropriate use by EMS
Despite a decline in anaphylaxis deaths over the past 25 years, lack of epinephrine and incorrect administration of epinephrine still play a significant role in mortality. According to a retrospective...
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Cutting Costs by Cutting Pills
According to some disturbing data released yesterday by the CDC, many US adults aren’t following doctor’s orders. And it’s not just the very young or very old, who, it could be claimed, don’t know any...
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Born to have Baby Blues?
It’ s not clear what causes postpartum depression. The condition, which is marked by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, exhaustion and anxiety, usually begins within four weeks of giving...
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NSAID’s in the News (again)
Let me start by saying, that despite spending the last 20-something years in or around the pharmaceutical industry, I don’t like taking pills. That said, I’m not particularly partial to pain either. So...
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even butterflies and chimpanzees do it.
SRxA’s Word on Health was intrigued by a story we read this week in National Geographic. It seems we could have a lot to learn from the abovementioned animals. It turns out that they, and many other...
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Compounding the Problem?
Here’s a question to get you thinking this Friday morning. What has been called the “worst public health crisis” in the US in decades? Is it: (a) HIV (b) Obesity (c) Healthcare.gov (d) Heart...
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