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How To Avoid China ’ s Medicine Monopoly
I want to share a shocking statistic with you… Around 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in America — both prescription and over-the-counter — are manufactured in China. I’m talking about drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, blood pressure and blood thinners, diuretics, aspirin, antibiotics, and a big chunk of the world’s insulin and diabetes drugs — just to name a few.1 We don’t even make penicillin anymore. The last penicillin plant in the U.S. closed its doors in 2004. Americans who rely on medicine are now almost entirely at the mercy of a country whose relations with the U.S. have become more ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Source Type: news

Reply to the Comment on “Comparison of Dabigatran Versus Warfarin Treatment for Prevention of New Cerebral Lesions in Valvular Atrial Fibrillation”
We thank Dr. Abrahim et al for their interest and valuable comment on our study.1 In the methodology section, we intended to recruit stable patients who were able to use the standard anticoagulation in the outpatient setting. Therefore, we excluded the patients with acute stroke within 2  weeks or patients with high-bleeding risk. All the patients received standard rate control therapy according to the relevant guideline.2 The proportion of medications for rate control such as β blocker (56% of overall patients), calcium channel blocker (24%), or digitalis (31%) were already prese nted, and the mean heart rate was 74.1 ± 14.2 beats/min.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - October 10, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Min Soo Cho, Duk-Hyun Kang, Kee-Joon Choi Source Type: research

Estimating the Prevalence, Clinical Characteristics, and Treatment Patterns of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Japan: A Nationwide Medical Claims Database Study
CONCLUSIONS: This study provides important information on the current epidemiological and clinical characteristics of HCM in Japan.PMID:36208832 | DOI:10.1016/j.jjcc.2022.09.015
Source: Journal of Cardiology - October 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Naoki Terasaka Dionysis Spanopoulos Hidetaka Miyagoshi Toru Kubo Hiroaki Kitaoka Source Type: research

Drug treatment strategies for osteoporosis in stroke patients.
Authors: Hsieh CY, Sung SF, Huang HK Abstract Introduction: Osteoporosis and subsequent fractures are well-recognized complications of stroke. However, drug treatment strategies for osteoporosis after stroke have been rarely discussed in the current guidelines for the management of stroke or osteoporosis.Areas covered: The authors review the epidemiology, characteristics, pathophysiology, and risk prediction of post-stroke osteoporosis and fractures. Then they provide an overview of existing evidence regarding drug treatment strategies for osteoporosis in stroke patients. They also review the effects on bone minera...
Source: Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy - March 11, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Expert Opin Pharmacother Source Type: research

Co-morbidity and clinically significant interactions between antiepileptic drugs and other drugs in elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy
Conclusions Elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy are at high risk of clinically relevant pharmacokinetic interactions with other drugs, especially if exposed to carbamazepine, but these interactions can be controlled via rational drug choices and with prediction of the possible drug-to-drug interactions. Patients on dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers, statins, warfarin, and risperidone face the highest risk of interactions.
Source: Epilepsy and Behavior - June 14, 2017 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Co-morbidity and clinically significant interactions between antiepileptic drugs and other drugs in elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy.
CONCLUSIONS: Elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy are at high risk of clinically relevant pharmacokinetic interactions with other drugs, especially if exposed to carbamazepine, but these interactions can be controlled via rational drug choices and with prediction of the possible drug-to-drug interactions. Patients on dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers, statins, warfarin, and risperidone face the highest risk of interactions. PMID: 28622547 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - June 13, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Bruun E, Virta LJ, Kälviäinen R, Keränen T Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research

Get Rid of Toxins to Reduce Risk of Stroke
Effects of Toxins I’ve been warning you about the toxins in our environment for years. They cause inflammation… They make you gain weight… They cause you to feel fatigued… Our exposure to them starts before we’re even born. One study found 287 chemicals and toxins in the blood of newborn babies.1 It’s shocking. What is in the air we breathe? We breathe in toxins and air pollutants every day. Carbon dioxide, lead, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter (PM). Causes of Stroke Now, a new study reveals that air pollution is responsible for as many as one-third of all strokes.2 That’...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - July 15, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Source Type: news