Medications, drugs, pharmaceuticals

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• Coumadin or Warfarin - the blood thinners
• The new diet pills - neither safe nor effective
• Rockefeller and the Rand Corporation - people more disabled now
• drug companies use prescribing profiles to sell drugs
• Drug-Induced Disorders - from American Family Physician Journal
• Hormone therapy not safe option - HERS study halted due to 40 percent MORE heart attack, thrombosis and stroke in those taking hormones!
• Botox - how safe is it really?
• Contaminated vaccine may cause cancer
• Chemicals in cosmetics being absorbed into the body
• Viagra has many side effects and doesn't work for men with diabetes
• New England Journal of Medicine apologized for violating own standards
• Flu medication - has side effects and not very effective
• Study found that drug gifts to providers influenced what prescriptions they write