An Overview on Asthma
The number of people getting diagnosed with asthma continues to grow in the U.S. People with asthma have grown from 7% in 2001 to 8% in 2009. That is around 25 million people in the U.S. Asthma is when a person’s airways are inflamed making it hard for them to breath. It is a chronic...Read More
How to Get Help Paying for Drugs You Can’t Afford
This is the story of nearly every American it seems. Due to lack of insurance, many are unable to seek medication help that is sorely needed. On the other hand, drugs have become so expensive that one simply cannot afford to purchase them, which results in a medical condition becoming serious and possibly, going out...Read More
How to Get Prescription Assistance When You Can’t Afford Medication Yourself
It seems like more and more Americans are forced to save on medical costs nowadays, simply because they are unable to afford it. To top it off, majority of the people who skip medical checkups are often in dire need of them due to chronic conditions that require constant care and medication. Not surprisingly, those...Read More
New Research on Alzheimer’s Disease
There is new research on the connection of cardiovascular risks and Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. There are small regional brain volumes that are associated with cardiovascular risks that may be able to indicate early Alzheimer’s and dementia. These risk factors that are found in the brain are alcohol consumption, smoking, diabetes, and obesity. “We already...Read More
Mental Health vs. Physical Health
Mental and physical health have a strong connection. Having mental health issues can create physical health and physical health issues can create mental health issues. They each have separate side effects but they do end up affecting each other. Mental Health Depression is a mental disease that greatly affects physical health. Those who have depression...Read More
How to Get Asthma RX Assistance and Pay for Your Doctor’s Visits
Asthma medication is expensive. This is a fact that sufferers of the condition will testify to. It’s also non-discriminatory, which means that a rich person or a child is as likely to get it, as a poor or elderly person. While securing asthma medicine is every easy for the rich and the insured, finding medication...Read More
Research that Antidepressants May Increase Depression
Antidepressants are drugs that are used to treat disorders like major depressive disorders, anxiety disorder, eating disorders, sleep disorder and many others. Mood disorders like bipolar disease are also treated by antidepressant. Bipolar disorder consists of episodes with mood swings that range from depressive lows to manic highs. According to Rif S. El-Mallakh, M.D., director...Read More
Disposing Dangerous Medications
Medication can be dangerous in the wrong hands. If you have this kind of medication it should be kept hidden or locked up if you live with other people for your safety and their’s. When the medication expires it should be disposed a certain way to be safe from others and the environment. Here are...Read More
How Does Prescription Drug Assistance Work?
There are new drugs being created and released every year and with those releases of drugs, the rises of prescription drugs are increasing. In the year of the baby boom the population greatly increased. Now that population is growing in age every year. “From 1994 to 2003, prescription drug spending rose at double-digit rates each...Read More
Martin Shkreli Raises Drug by 5,000%
The price of prescription drugs are rapidly increasing. Just in 2014, they have rose by 11% and doubled in the overall rise of medic cost. Just recently, a 62 year old drug called Daraprim tablet that is used to fight against a life threatening parasite, toxoplasmosis has raised in price by 5,000%. Over $60 million...Read More
