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ADHD Medications – Do They Carry Risks for the Heart?
Posted by admin in Medical Association on January 23, 2012
The cardiac risk of the drugs for ADHD have attracted interest recently following the recommendation by the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the FDA to include a black-box warning describing the cardiovascular risks of stimulant drugs used to treat this condition. However, this recommendation has subsequently been toned down by the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the FDA.
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a disorder mainly diagnosed in school age children. It is characterized by increased activity, an inability to concentrate and poor school performance. Stimulant drugs have been the mainstay of treatment of ADHD. These include amphetamine and related drugs like methamphetamine and methylphenidate (Ritalin).
Help Your Loved One With Medication
Posted by admin in Medical Association on January 16, 2012
Taking medications is inconvenient and difficult for even the healthiest of us. For the elderly, this is even harder. There are a few little things that you can do to make your elderly relative’s life a little bit easier. While these things can’t change their condition or disability, they can make the process just a touch easier. Perhaps these things can even help them to avoid the frustration that is completely normal and justified.
If there are no children around the house, ask your pharmacist for easy open bottles. When you suffer from arthritis in your hands and fingers, opening medicine bottles is a very difficult task. Easy open bottles can eliminate the pain and anger that will stem from them simply trying to take their medicine.
Clinical Trials – Importance and Value of Medical Research
Posted by admin in Medical Association on January 9, 2012
Clinical trials are regulated tests on people for specific diseases and conditions. The goals of clinical research can vary, from finding a better way to treat your condition to a new way to detect a disease. Regardless of the purpose, clinical research greatly enhances medical knowledge.
Clinical trials test new treatments, therapies or drugs. Not all trials involve medication — they alter your eating or sleeping habits. Each trial could be specific to age, gender, demographic, medical history and so on. Requirements are in place to ensure the safest and most reliable results.
What Makes Medications So Risky?
Posted by admin in Medical Association on January 2, 2012
First, the fact that the side effects of medications is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, should make one question whether there might be a better solution. I’m convinced that there is. In fact, I don’t trust drugs, have never relied on them, and at 77 am in “excellent health” – - no disease or conditions!
In fact, if medication side effects is considered the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., you might say that they are responsible for creating a disease – - “drug side effect disease”. It would appear that the best way to avoid the disease would be to avoid the drugs that were responsible. Unfortunately, the FDA drug approval process no longer assures a drugs safety, as the company seeking approval now conduct their own studies, (at times even in third world countries)! Although most patients are taking several medications, which greatly increases the risk, regarding FDA approval, they are instead tested individually. Most drug trials are normally short duration; it’s normally after long-term use, that problems eventually become apparent.