• Pharmacy computers don’t catch dangerous drug interactions
  • Even mild stress is linked to long-term disability
  • Unneeded heart screenings are being given to many healthy adults
  • Half of all Alzheimer’s patients don’t really have the disease
  • Amphetamines linked to risk of Parkinson’s
  • Alcohol kills 2.5 million people a year, says WHO
  • Medical errors hurt 18% of hospital patients
  • Common painkillers linked to increased risk of heart problems
  • Hospitalized children increasingly dying from infections
  • Surgery on wrong-patient or wrong body part still frequent
  • Darvon, Darvocet taken off the market
  • Antibiotics can destroy “good” bacteria for years
  • 70,000 kids hospitalized for accidental drug "poisoning"
  • Hospital charges: up to $18,000 per day
  • Mindfulness meditation increases well-being in adolescent boys
  • Anxiety -- and anxiety drugs -- on the rise
  • Half of all Americans take prescription drugs regularly
  • Consumers worried about drug industry's influence on their MDs
  • Swedish massage heightens immune response
  • Doing the 'smart walk'
  • Survey: Most drug addicts start with prescription drugs
  • The true cost of killing bugs
  • Antibiotic use increases when insurance pays for it
  • Music therapy can help children learn to talk
  • Western diet linked to ADHD
  • New blood thinning drugs post serious risks
  • Survey: Most DCs practice 'defensive medicine'
  • Nothing fishy with this report
  • Knee surgery success rate dismal
  • Healthy diet could slow or reverse early effects of Alzheimer's disease
  • 'Epigenetics' offers new hope for degenerative diseases
  • Vaccines tended to cause more flu
  •  New study: Millions of elderly given wrong drugs
  • Researchers discover additional benefit of Vitamin A
  • Study confirms effectiveness of chiropractic
  • Take food, not drugs, for cholesterol
  • Neurological impact of acupuncture studied