Drugs and Medications Features
- Cracking the Secret
Drug companies offer a variety of patient assistance programs, but finding out about them, and learning whether you qualify, is often difficult.
- Advice for Those Who Strike It Rich
While getting rich sounds like nothing but fun, it can produce headaches, too.
- Surfing for Sex Therapy
Can you find sex advice online? Yes, but be sure to check out a site as carefully as you would a therapist.
- Conflict of Interest Checkup.
Conflict of Interest Checkup
- How Safe Is Junior at Play?
More than 240,000 playground injuries are treated each year in U.S. emergency rooms.
- Cleaning up the System
A look at the ignorance of residents (trainees) and practicing physicians regarding guidelines concerning their contacts with drug companies.
- Conflict of Interest Checkup
The long-standing relationship between doctors and drug companies is intended to serve mutual interests: Doctors need tested remedies with which to treat patients, and drug companies need a way to sell their tested remedies.
- Is Shyness a Mental Disorder?
For a surprising number of people, social awkwardness is more than an uncomfortable anxiety. It is a mental disorder that needs to be treated.
- Easing Arthritic Pain
How a supplement often used on animals is helping humans, too. The popular arthritis supplements glucosamine and chondroitin, long used in veterinary medicine, are finally getting some attention from the medical establishment. Here's what you need to know before you pop these pills.
- Missing the Diagnosis
When a mammogram fails, does a woman have the right to sue?
- Infertility: It's Not My Fault
Why do men have such a hard time accepting low sperm count? Close to a million of them will consult a fertility specialist this year, yet very few are likely to talk about it much. What causes male infertility and what can be done about it?
- Fighting Cancer With Exercise: One Woman's Story.
Fighting Cancer With Exercise: One Woman's Story
- No Trials for the Aging
Older patients are often eager to determine the effectiveness of drugs by trying experimental therapies. So why are so many of them being left out of clinical studies?
- Looking for High-Quality Mammography
Women seeking mammograms can find the highest quality screenings from radiologists and doctors who have years of experience performing and reading mammograms on a daily basis.
- Why a Mammogram May Miss a Tumor
Medical experts say there are several reasons why a mammogram may fail to detect a cancerous tumor.
- Computer-Assisted Second Readings
Considered by some to be the stealth technology of women's health care, the computer-aided second reading is now regarded as a reliable way for doctors to look for breast abnormalities that the naked eye may have missed.
- Job Rights for the Mentally Ill
Employers beware. One in five Americans suffers from a mental illness. The stigma of mental illness harms many people's careers. But the law entitles them to fair accommodation on the job. All illnesses must be treated equally.
- Gentle Discipline Tips
The new parenting approach
- The Path to Healing
Rape affects not just the victim but also her, or his, friends and family. The path to healing may be different for each person touched by the crime.
- Is the Silence Broken?
Thirty years after rape crisis centers, women are being heard. New facilities underscore the trend toward a gentler, more encompassing approach.
- Positive Time-Out..
While some discipline experts have rejected the idea of time-outs, Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Time-Out, suggests modifying time-outs to make them a comforting experience.
- Are Saline Implants Safe?
The government has recommended that two types of saline implants be allowed to stay on the market, so long as women are told about the risks. But what does 'informed consent' really mean?
- Positive Time-Out
Try modifying time-outs to make them more effective.
- Positive Time-Out
While some discipline experts have rejected the idea of time-outs, Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Time-Out, suggests modifying time-outs to make them a comforting experience.
- Saline Implants: FDA Hearing
Silicone implants became the centerpiece of a legal and medical firestorm, culminating last November in a massive $3.2 billion settlement against the nation's leading maker of silicone implants, Dow Corning Corp.
- Implant Risks
The guidelines that identify 26 separate risks issued by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) to doctors who are preparing informed consent forms for women considering breast implant surgery.
- Gentle Discipline Tips
Three experts who have written extensively on the new, enlightened approach to parenting young children, offer suggestions for dealing with toddlers.
- Gentle Discipline Tips.
Three experts who have written extensively on the new, enlightened approach to parenting young children, offer suggestions for dealing with toddlers.
- Myths That Put Women at Risk
Most sexual assaults simply don't fit any stereotype. A look at the most common misconceptions.
- How Writing Saved My Life
Did writing about a dead water buffalo help save John Mulligan's life?
- How to Know When Your Family Needs Help.
How to Know When Your Family Needs Help
- How to Know When Your Family Needs Help
The American Association for Marriage and Family notes that signs of distress are not always obvious, but that some signals are worth paying attention to.
- Spousal Stress
It's no surprise that sickness in the family can lead to lots of stress. But why do women suffer more than men?
- Tips to Help Women Cope
How can you, as a female patient or caregiver, better cope with the stress and emotions that you face? Here are some tips that may make your life easier.
- Relative Power
All they wanted was to watch their two granddaughters grow up, and all she wanted to do was build a family. Yet this seemingly ordinary dispute has become a landmark legal case that raises tough questions about the limits of grandparenting.
- Tips to Help Women Cope..
Tips to Help Women Cope
- Tips to Help Women Cope.
Tips to Help Women Cope
- How Grandparents Can Improve Your Child's Well-Being
Family disputes sometimes make headlines, but the fact is that many grandparents play an important role in a child's emotional and physical well-being. Here's how your child can benefit from a relationship with his elders.
- Fight Fat, Fight Cancer
For years, research on whether exercise helps reduce breast cancer risk has turned up conflicting results. Now the clouds of confusion are starting to clear.
- Keeping the Honeymoon Alive
It's probably always been a struggle to maintain emotional intimacy with one's partner while taking care of young children
- Questions to Ask Your Child's School
If you are concerned about the use of pesticides or herbicides at your child's school, here are some questions to take up with the school administration.
- Questions to Ask Your Child's School
If you are concerned about the use of pesticides or herbicides at your child's school, here are some questions to take up with the school administration.
- Seven-Year Itch
Is the "seven-year" itch just an excuse for infidelity? Maybe not. Recent research suggests there is reason for the straying heart.
- Just for Men
The frightening side effects of prostate cancer surgery. How do men with this disease choose the best treatment?
- Intercepting Schizophrenia
Psychiatric drugs might prevent schizophrenia before symptoms start. But who should get this treatment?
- Health in a Bottle?
A glass or two of alcohol could make a difference to your heart.
- The No-Hassle Pill
Some women are opting not to have their period each month. What are the risks and benefits of this choice?
- Toxic Turf
Schools are spraying herbicides and pesticides on their grounds to control pests from yellow jackets to ants. But who's paying attention to the harmful effects these chemicals have on the nation's schoolchildren?
- Smokeless Tobacco : Warning Signs
If you use smokeless tobacco, you should see a doctor immediately upon experiencing any of these symptoms, according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
- On-the-Job Injuries
The High-Tech Disease of an Overproductive Age?