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Medications Archive
Common Medications
Treatment: By Medication and Devices
- Treating insomnia: a look at Sonata and Ambien
- Allergy desensitization alternative treatments: what are they and do they work?
- Allergy shots
- Alternative ways to fight the flu
- Arixtra: protection against post-surgical blood clots
- Biologic agents and the treatment of autoimmune disorders
- Botox for the treatment of frown lines
- Botulism: killer or wonder drug?
- Camera pill takes pictures of small intestine
- CardioSEAL septal occlusion system: for the treatment of congenital cardiovascular defects
- Conductive keratoplasty can improve farsightedness
- Cortisone injection: will it help or hurt you?
- Frova: longer relief from migraine pain
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): does it reduce heart disease risk in postmenopausal women?
- InFUSE bone graft/LT-CAGE lumbar tapered fusion device: a new option for treating degenerative disc disease
- Kineret: help for easing the pain of rheumatoid arthritis
- Leukotriene inhibitors can help control asthma and relieve symptoms of allergies
- Light therapy device for acne
- Drug therapy for controlling obesity
- Prevacid approved for pediatric GERD
- Propecia: the new pill for baldness: does it work?
- Refractive eye surgery
- Statin drugs: not just for high cholesterol?
- Transdermal patches for weight loss: safe or sorry?
Treatment: By Condition
- Treating insomnia: a look at Sonata and Ambien
- Allergy desensitization alternative treatments: what are they and do they work?
- Allergy shots
- Asthma and allergies: leukotriene inhibitors
- Autoimmune disorders: biologic agents to treat
- Blood clots: Arixtra may offer protection against post-surgical blood clots
- Degenerative disc disease: InFUSE Bone Graft/LT-CAGE lumbar tapered fusion device
- Emergency contraception: plan B
- Farsightedness: conductive keratoplasty can improve
- Flu: alternative ways to fight the flu
- Frown lines: Botox treatment
- Gallstones: anatomy of a gallstone
- GERD: Prevacid approved for pediatric GERD
- High blood pressure: Benicar is a new option for treatment
- Migraine headache: Frova may offer longer relief from migraine pain
- Osteoporosis drug: Fosamax
- Rheumatoid arthritis: Kineret may help ease pain
- Sleep aids: what you need to know
- The flu: new ways to fight the flu
- Asthma: tips for controlling
- Treating congenital heart defects: two devices offer an alternative to surgery
- Weight loss: transdermal patches
- Wrinkles: Botox approved to treat frown lines
Prevention
- FluMist: a painless option to the annual flu shot
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): does it reduce heart disease risk in postmenopausal women?
- Learning more about the smallpox vaccine
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza Vaccine: Questions and Answers
- Preventive cardiology: aspirin
- Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
- The avian flu vaccine
- Two drugs that fight the flu
- Vaccines: weighing supply against demand
- What are vaccines?
Questions and Tips
- Acetaminophen: Are You Taking Too Much?
- Are drugs on the net safe?
- Barcode technology for specimen collection
- Beware when buying medications abroad
- Could your depression be related to your medication?
- Do your medications actually work?
- Drug expiration dates: how accurate are they?
- Drug interactions: what you need to know
- Drug tests: don't fall victim to a "false-positive"
- Food and medication interactions
- Keeping prescription drugs safe
- Kids and caffeine: are they getting too much?
- In-home pregnancy tests: your questions answered
- Is grapefruit affecting your medications?
- Medication questions? Ask the pharmacist.
- Medications and pregnancy: how to tell what’s safe and what’s not
- Methamphetamine abuse: a growing problem
- Off-label drug use: is it safe?
- Over-the-counter drugs: follow the instructions
- Pain relief medications: are they good for you?
- Personalized medicine
- Picking a pain reliever: which one should you take?
- Pill splitting can save money, but talk to your doctor first
- Prescription drugs and sex—not always a good mix
- Preventing medical errors
- Should you take part in a clinical trial?
- Taking prescription medications
- Testing medications: who's being left out?
- Tips for safely buying medications online
- Tips for safely using medications
- Too many pills on your plate? How to simplify your medication regimen
- Unconventional treatment: who pays for 'other kinds' of care?
Cancer Treatment
Diabetes Treatment
Heart Treatment
- Amplatzer Septal Occluder: for the treatment of congenital cardiovascular defects
- Anatomy of an artificial heart: the AbioCor
- Benicar: to lower blood pressure
- CardioSEAL Septal Occlusion System: for the treatment of congenital cardiovascular defects
- Drugs that may lead to heart damage
- FDA approved heart assist pump for permanent implantation
- Heart attack: avoiding a first heart attack with aspirin
- Preventive cardiology: aspirin
- Preventive cardiology: beta-blockers
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