Blogs

The Iraq war is estimated to cost each family in the U.S. over $25,000, but that doesn’t come close to how much we spend each year on prescription drugs. In the same five years it took the U.S. to spend $500 billion in Iraq, purchases of prescription drugs climbed a blistering 13% to a record 3.7 billion prescriptions annually¹.

The makers of the popular herbal remedy, Airborne, admitted no guilt and do not claim culpability but still settled for $23.3 million in a class action lawsuit brought forward by former Airborne customers. Under the agreement, Airborne customers can be reimbursed for up to six purchases by filling out a claim on the class action web site, set up at http://www.airbornehealthsettlement.com.

Forty-seven clinical trials analyzed by researchers at the University of Hull, in the U.K. all suggest that the top antidepressants, including Prozac, Efexor, and Seroxat provide little or no benefit.

A new study from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may have found the key to preventing HIV from even entering the bloodstream.

The FDA just approved Simcor, a breakthrough new drug from Abbott Laboratories that is said to increase good cholesterol (HDL) while simultaneously decreasing bad (LDL) cholesterol.