The labels for fluoroquinolone antibiotics, Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, etc. have two black box warnings, warnings reserved for only the most serious and
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Dysautonomia and Hypoxia
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Every profession has its jargon that enables its practitioners to communicate relatively easily but is incomprehensible to those outside the indicated profession.
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Why Does Yaz Get a Pass?
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In the early days of hormonal birth control, many physicians and politicians seemed extraordinarily indifferent to the side effects linked to the
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Psychosomatic Disease: We Have It All Wrong
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Psychosomatic disease (psyche: the mind, soma: the body). Illness is defined as “of, or relating to, the interaction of mind and body”.
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I don’t know much about plumbing, I’ll admit it. I‘m not afraid to use a plunger, or take the lid off the
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In 2011 a mother called me and asked whether I would be able to help her 14-year old son who had been
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Corporate-Speak and the Language of Healthcare
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You Are What You SayCorporate-speak infests healthcare. Buzzwords invaded medicine thirty years ago, but the infection was contained to hospital administration. Now
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Cymbalta: A Neurological Damage Machine
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A friend shared a story with me earlier today—it was a quote from something amazing that one of her friends wrote. She
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