The Problem With Pain Pills

The Problem With Pain Pills

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In the new e-book “A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine's Biggest Mistake,” the New York Times reporter Barry Meier explores the murky world of prescription pain medicine. He makes a strong case that opioid drugs used to treat chronic pain, like …
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Hormone therapy, calcium may lower fracture risk

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women taking a combination of hormone therapy and calcium and vitamin D tablets after menopause were less likely to fracture their hip than those not taking hormones or supplements, in a new study. "We always tell women to …
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Israeli Orthodox Rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich: Medical Marijuana Is Kosher

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"I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Robertson said in an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html" target="_blank">interview with The New York Times</a> in …
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Doctors and scientists peer into the future

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The next 60 years – and even the next decade or two – are expected to produce a cornucopia of revelations, treatments and cures. And as the brain controls everything humans do and is to blame for …. “In the past decade there hasn't been even one drug …
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