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March 2020
Learn why women should avoid using BRISDELLE, the first and only nonhormonal drug approved by the FDA for treatment of hot flashes associated with menopause.
December 2019
In this first of a two-part series, we review some of the many commonly prescribed medications that can damage your eyes and the steps that you can take to protect yourself from these adverse effects. The second part in this series will appear in our February 2020 issue.
May 2018
This article reviews the recent recommendation issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force, an independent volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention, against the use of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women in order to prevent chronic conditions such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, cancer and osteoporosis.
June 2014
Learn about the dangers of the heavily promoted drug ospemifene (OSPHENA), which was recently approved by the FDA to treat pain during sexual intercourse, and about much safer alternatives for treating this condition.
February 2008
The article discusses the adverse drug interactions between either of two widely-prescribed macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin (as in ERYTHROCIN) and clarithromycin (BIAXIN)and more than 40 other drugs that are listed in a table in the article. It also describes the nature of the adverse interactions that can occur.
December 2007
This article explains how to understand the International Normalized Ratio (INR), a test applied to a sample of a patient’s blood to determine how “thin” it is when you are using the blood thinner COUMADIN (warfarin). In addition, the article lists more than 50 drugs or dietary supplements that can interact harmfully with COUMADIN to cause the blood to be too thin (abnormal bleeding) or not thin enough which could result in lessening the effect of COUMADIN in stopping blood clot formation.
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