Posts Tagged ‘medication side effects’
|Regular Use of Aspirin Increases Risk of Crohn’s Disease by 5 Times, Study Finds
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Tags: aspirin, Crohn's disease, medication side effects
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Risk of cardiovascular disease and all cause mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes prescribed oral antidiabetes drugs: retrospective cohort study using UK general practice research database
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Tags: antidiabetes drugs, Cardiovascular disease, medication side effects, Type 2 diabetes
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Pycnogenol and Osteoporosis
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
A double-blind, placebo controlled trial involving 156 patients with osteoporosis found that supplementing with pycnogenol – an extract of pine bark – significantly reduced many of the symptoms associated with medications used to treat osteoporosis. Specifically, there was a 58% reduction in pain, there was increased walking distance on a treadmill test, decreased gastrointestinal complications (63% reduction), and decreased foot edema (79% reduction in the treatment group vs 1% in the placebo group).
The study used 100mg of pycnogenol daily for 3 months.
Tags: Alternative medicine, medication side effects, Osteoporosis, pycnogenol
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Antibiotics and Heart Disease
Saturday, September 18th, 2004
Several months ago it was discovered that lifetime consumption of antibiotics by women increased the overall risk of developing breast cancer. Now a team of researchers at Vanderbuilt University School of Medicine have found yet another very significant reason to be cautious with antibiotic use.
After studying nearly 1500 people, they found that consumption of the common antibiotic erythromycin doubled the risk of suffering a fatal heart attack. Even more strikingly, when erythromycin was taken in combination with any of several other common medications, the risk of dying from a heart attack increased fivefold.
One of the drugs that caused the deadly combination with erythromycin is verapamil, commonly prescribed to treat everything from high blood pressure to migraines, panic attacks and depression. (more…)
Tags: antibiotics, heart attack, Heart disease, medication side effects
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