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Generic of course.

I'm just curious, why are Epi Pens not already generic?

Then observe the value of competition... The market works, if you let it.

There is already a generic epinephrine injector that's been around for about 13 years called Adrenaclick. I bought mine from Walmart for about $160, I think.
There's also the Auvi-Q since 2012. https://www.drugs.com/history/...

https://www.consumerreports.or...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

... The research, published in PLOS Biology, was done in a lab, with samples containing scalp hair follicles from more than 40 male hair-transplant patients...

The stuff got research attention because the patient population includes, or is primarily compose of, guys. Like erectile dysfunction. For that we've got at least 14 drugs. Coincidentally, all the doctors listed on the paper appear to be men. If it had been for uterine cancer, endometriosis, IBS, fibromyalgia or any of a host of female-specific afflictions or where the majority of patients were women, the sponsor Giuliani Pharma (website down; Google cache) would have said "Nice work, but doesn't pay the bills. Find something to give me a giant hardon, and let me fuck all night. Then you get money. All those women-problems things are just in their poor little heads anyway."

Big pharma has been peddling antidepressants that largely don't work or are actually counter-productive, but have a host of side-effects, including suicide and addictiveness.

Some hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin and LSD, on the other hand, have shown remarkable, disease-changing curative properties, but are schedule 1 drugs.

We didn't need Goldman Sachs to reveal that curing patients is not the best model for big pharma. Everybody with half a brain must have known this by now. Enjoy your destructive and never-curing antidepressants.

And your Valtrex prescription, too!

Who said it was safe ? No one said it was safe, as far as I can tell. Obviously, it's not safe. Air (with its pollutants) is not safe as well.

You can find some info here about the base components of the vaping fluid:

https://www.drugs.com/inactive...
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-...

Alvie

All of those drugs are amphetamine analogs used to treat ADHD, or are you going to try and say that her ADHD diagnosis was faked?

https://www.drugs.com/ritalin....
https://www.drugs.com/adderall...
https://www.drugs.com/cdi/dexe...

Both of my kids, and I have ADHD, I have taken all of these except Adderall, and they had varying effects on my attention issues. Perhaps we should just ban treatment of any issues with athletes, they should just not use any medications?

These people used medications in the course of medical treatment of actual conditions. If Russia wanted to diagnose all their athletes with ADHD to give them all Ritalin, it would be possible within the rules. Instead, they chose a drug that is used only for recovery from major illnesses and used it on most of their athletes, despite it being a banned drug, and without a doctors exemption for treatment.

All of those drugs are amphetamine analogs used to treat ADHD, or are you going to try and say that her ADHD diagnosis was faked?

https://www.drugs.com/ritalin....
https://www.drugs.com/adderall...
https://www.drugs.com/cdi/dexe...

Both of my kids, and I have ADHD, I have taken all of these except Adderall, and they had varying effects on my attention issues. Perhaps we should just ban treatment of any issues with athletes, they should just not use any medications?

These people used medications in the course of medical treatment of actual conditions. If Russia wanted to diagnose all their athletes with ADHD to give them all Ritalin, it would be possible within the rules. Instead, they chose a drug that is used only for recovery from major illnesses and used it on most of their athletes, despite it being a banned drug, and without a doctors exemption for treatment.

All of those drugs are amphetamine analogs used to treat ADHD, or are you going to try and say that her ADHD diagnosis was faked?

https://www.drugs.com/ritalin....
https://www.drugs.com/adderall...
https://www.drugs.com/cdi/dexe...

Both of my kids, and I have ADHD, I have taken all of these except Adderall, and they had varying effects on my attention issues. Perhaps we should just ban treatment of any issues with athletes, they should just not use any medications?

These people used medications in the course of medical treatment of actual conditions. If Russia wanted to diagnose all their athletes with ADHD to give them all Ritalin, it would be possible within the rules. Instead, they chose a drug that is used only for recovery from major illnesses and used it on most of their athletes, despite it being a banned drug, and without a doctors exemption for treatment.

...important to note that this is a Schedule I compound?

It's probably also worth noting that marijuana is also a schedule 1 drug, due to its "high potential for abuse", "no currently accepted medical use in the U.S.", and "potentially severe psychological or physical dependence".

NOTE: Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, marijuana) is still considered a Schedule 1 drug by the DEA, even though some U.S. states have legalized marijuana for personal, recreational use or for medical use.

At least it's not as much bullshit as Tamiflu or other voodoo vaccines that passes as medicine these days. That fiasco cost UK taxpayers a cool half-billion pounds. If homeopathy costs 1% but doesn't hurt or maim with serious side effects then it's worth the paltry cost.

I have experience with that as my father was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer and his chemotherapy is killing him faster than his cancer. Here is an email I sent to his oncologist, demanding he be taken off of chemo with the evidence I gathered that chemo was a bigger threat than his cancer currently. The oncologist only responded by cutting off contact.

The email:

I have been talking to my father. He has been experiencing a loss of appetite, a side effect shared by Avastation[1], Oxaliplatin[2] and 5-Fu[3] which he is receiving. Today he ate just some yogurt and a half cup of soup all day. He also has difficulty swallowing[1], and is experiencing taste changes[3]. He has a low white blood cell count[3], which means his immune system is also comprised thanks to chemo[4]. When eating certain foods like bread he has nausea[1, 2, 3]. Cancer is a wasting disease, even without chemo patients have difficulty maintaining bodyweight. The chemo you are giving him is making it even harder for him to maintain bodyweight. My uncle says he looks like a starving African.

According to the published journal literature, in contributing positively to 5 year survival, chemotherapy, is only effective in less than 3% of cases[5]. More specific research to the type of cancer my father has reveals: "stage II colon cancer patients who received chemotherapy treatment were more likely to have poor [quality of life], recurrence, and all-cause mortality after 24 months compared to those who did not receive chemotherapy."[6] A study on the use of chemo in end stage cancer, since my father is in Stage IV, maintains in its conclusion: "The [quality of life near death] in patients with end-stage cancer is not improved, and can be harmed, by chemotherapy use near death, even in patients with good performance status."[7]

In the Family Leave Form you kindly filled out(which I do appreciate) for my employer you stated that one of the reasons my father needed care was, "Terminal stage colorectal cancer with cognitive failure." According to the research again, while cognitive impairment is present in many cancer patients before treatment, chemo is known to increase the incidence of impairment[8]. In another field you entered: "He [sic] hospitalized 3 times due to toxicity secondary to treatment," which I read as him being hospitalized because he received chemo, not because he has cancer.

I would appreciate it for all these reasons if effective immediately you cease administering chemotherapy to my father, who you noted has "cognitive failure" and is under the mistaken impression he has a benign tumor and will live indefinitely, so that he can enjoy some measure of a quality of life in his last days and months alive. If it is required when I arrive in Greece, I will have to tell him the truth and explain to him his real prognosis and how chemo is at this point a bigger threat than his cancer, but I don't want to drop this bomb over the phone and into my uncle's lap who himself is not well and has multiple sclerosis.

I am not attacking you in a professional capacity, because this is basically what I expect from every doctor and which is why I avoid doctors. I am sure oncologists in the USA are just as in love in with ineffective chemotherapy and just as forbidden from doing anything else. I would appreciate it if I can receive pathology, MRI Scan and surgical reports(if any), two blood tests (CBC,SMA-24) no older than two weeks on my father so I can take him abroad for 2-3 weeks somewhere(not the USA as our cancer care is just as chemo centered) so he can gain some bodyweight, improve his white blood count(immune system) and generally get healthier, instead of focusing exclusively on killing his cancer with chemo to the point that he obviously currently has a very low quality of life, since it cannot discriminate between healthy and cancer cells.

[1] http://www.drugs.com/sfx/avastin-side-effects.html
[2]

Wait, really? Seriously?
The hell, it does the exact opposite of me.
It makes me HORNY and creative, in fact, while also actually getting rid of pain quite well.
Lower level Paracetamol doesn't work too well with me unless I take it with tramadol, but even then barely.

And that is taking these pills in particular.
Solpadol makes me feel far far better when I take them. The only downside is the slight nausea after 5 hours if I don't take any more, which is bad since I tend to only take them once a day when things are REALLY bad. (in addition to Tramadol as well now, which aids it far more)

Should I go see a doctor? Am I broken?! OH GOD

The pharma industry doesn't like to make medicines that solve more than one problem at a time. It's difficult to monetize that efficiently.

Your trolling, but you're wrong. If all you need to do is another Phase III study for a different indication, you're golden. There are a number of drugs on the market that have different trade names for different uses but are the same molecule. It's not quite the Holy Grail for big Pharma, but it is at least a big lottery win.

A good example of that is Finasteride. In one dosage it is sold as Proscar (to treat prostate enlargement), but in a different dosage it is sold as Propecia (to treat male pattern baldness). I'm sure that Merck is happy to take your money either way.

Another example is Revatio, which is the same actual drug as Viagra, but is intended to treat pulmonary hypertension. Ironically, it was originally developed to treat angina and hypertension, but once the "side effect" became obvious Pfizer realized quickly that selling it as a treatment for ED was more profitable.

The pharma industry doesn't like to make medicines that solve more than one problem at a time. It's difficult to monetize that efficiently.

Your trolling, but you're wrong. If all you need to do is another Phase III study for a different indication, you're golden. There are a number of drugs on the market that have different trade names for different uses but are the same molecule. It's not quite the Holy Grail for big Pharma, but it is at least a big lottery win.

Patient counseling info for such drugs almost without exception specifically and explicitly mention the possibility of this very side effect, and the doctor or pharmacist, or both, tells you to NEVER combine it with alcohol

My doctor prescribed Ambien to me. I tried it for a month and it didn't work. Nobody warned me about the "sleep walking" or any of the other exotic side effects.

A friend of mine was taking gabapentin (Neurontin). A co-worker at work started a fight, he fought back, and they both got fired (from their non-union job). It was in the depths of the recession and he couldn't get another job; he wound up in bad shape. I called the FDA to find out if this could be due to the gabapentin, and a doctor looked it up their database and said yes, they had a few reports of gabapentin associated with aggression. I don't think it was in the patient information then, but it (sometimes) is now. The warning isn't prominent http://www.drugs.com/cons/gaba... http://www.fda.gov/downloads/D... and they emphasize the effect in children, not adults.

It's not possible for a patient to be aware of these things in a country where doctors' appointments are 15 minutes or less, they don't get paid for phone advice, and primary care practitioners are prescribing these drugs.

NyQuil D

Generic Name: acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, doxylamine, and pseudoephedrine

Legal Requirements for the Sale and Purchase of Drug Products Containing Pseudoephedrine...

The sale of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine is limited to behind the counter. The amount of pseudoephedrine that an individual can purchase each month is limited and individuals are required to present photo identification to purchase products containing pseudoephedrine.

It's probably more of a training issue than anything. Do you want to be responsible for your employees getting the special rule for Nyquil D right?

The general "treatment" for kidney stones to to fill the patient full of pain killers and/or smooth muscle relaxants and wait. Later an ultrasound would be done to see if other measures need to be taken. Kidney stones are rarely if ever life threatening; They are just very painful.

Yep, also FlowMax also works wonders on stones once they hit the bladder.

And to add to my previous post. Let's just enumerate a list of some of the vitamin brands sold by a couple of the big name pharma companies.

Bayer:

One A Day
Supradyn
Flintstones Vitamins
Pluravit
Elevit
Redoxin

Pfizer:

Centrum
Emergen-CStresstabs
Clusivol
Trihemic

Oh and to throw in, Pfizer even has a web page extolling the virtues of taking vitamins. Funny since you would have us believe they are against them, no?

GlaxoSmithKline:

Cetebe
Rutinoscorbin
Scott's Emulsion

For people who hate vitamin supplements it's amazing how many brands just those 3 companies alone sell, no? And that's not including all the other nutritional supplements they sell which would add at least another 10 or 12 items. So this notion that big pharma hates vitamins, etc. is pure bunk.

You mean like this? http://www.drugs.com/otc/109180/colgate-kids-halloween-wicked-watermelon.html

Doctors prescribe Oxycontin like candy. That's because it is pushed hard by Big Pharma.

An employee of mine was prescribed it for recovery from surgery (not a bad reason), but wasn't told anything at all about its narcotic or addictive properties.

When he told me what he was on, I said "Oh, hillbilly heroin!" I then told him about it, and he went white.

There's a hell of a lot of that in medicine, these days.

A couple of years ago, there was a notorious pharmacy robbery in New York, where the guy executed four people in order to get Vicodin and Oxycontin for himself and his wife.

I have been in Recovery for over 30 years. I have been told, many times, by folks in medicine, to NEVER tell the doctor that I'm an addict, as it goes on your record, and they treat you like dirt, even if you have been drug-free longer than they have been alive.

Sorry but I doubt very much that the friend's parent was prescribed Ketamine for sleep. It was probably a sedative like Ambien. Please note the following warning;

What happens if I overdose?

Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. An overdose of Ambien can be fatal when it is taken together with other medications that can cause drowsiness.

Overdose symptoms may include sleepiness, confusion, shallow breathing, feeling light-headed, fainting, or coma.

Ketamine itself isn't even safe as shown in this use positive site. Here are a couple of quotes;

Ketamine users attempting to move around are likely to fall down, bump into things or find themselves in a body of water without the ability to swim. Talking, moving or even going to the bathroom can be extremely difficult. It’s very important to be in a safe environment. For inexperienced users, a clear-headed sitter is absolutely essential.

Environmental Hazards
At high doses, ketamine can be physically incapacitating, even paralyzing. Users must be sure to extinguish all cigarettes, candles and any other flame that could be knocked over. Over the years, several deaths have been attributed to ketamine. In virtually every case, the actual cause of death was some physical accident. A woman passed out and froze to death in her own side yard. Several users have drown, some even in their own bathtubs. It’s very easy for a user under the influence to trip and fall, potentially causing themselves great bodily harm. Given these examples it is hopefully apparent that a clear-headed sitter is virtually essential for even experienced ketamine users.

I would not call a couple of teens in their room playing on the internet to be " clear-headed sitter[s]".

The fact that a certain drug itself would not kill them does not preclude the fact that the juveniles did not know what other medication the parents were taking or if they were going to drink alcohol or drive a vehicle. The juveniles took their parents' lives in their hands when they administered a prescription sleeping medication.

some patients end up with hyperkalemia with lisinopril (this can be fatal is severe enough), if you are on lisinopril you should be having a lab draw once a year (probably a bmp or at least a K and Cr. )
http://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/lisinopril.html
well just read it for yourself

I have no problem with a lab drawing once a year. I do have a problem with paying a benjamin a month for a completely unnecessary office visit just so the doctor will push the button allowing my next refill. It's a little too similar to the business model used by crack dealers.

    Depends on dosage, and your tolerance. I don't have a great tolerance to it, so I literally nibble off a small piece of a pill, and that's enough for me to sleep soundly for 3 to 4 hours, despite screaming children and aircraft noise. So a pill may last me 5 to 10 flights. The last prescription lasted me years. :)

    People who have taken it daily for a period of time can likely take several. Someone I knew abused them heavily, took a dozen or so and passed out. I threw her in the car and hauled ass to the hospital. She was awake and demanding to leave 6 hours later. She'd take the 2mg "bar", just to calm down, without getting drowsy. The 0.25mg pill will put me to sleep for about 8 hours.

    Depends on dosage, and your tolerance. I don't have a great tolerance to it, so I literally nibble off a small piece of a pill, and that's enough for me to sleep soundly for 3 to 4 hours, despite screaming children and aircraft noise. So a pill may last me 5 to 10 flights. The last prescription lasted me years. :)

    People who have taken it daily for a period of time can likely take several. Someone I knew abused them heavily, took a dozen or so and passed out. I threw her in the car and hauled ass to the hospital. She was awake and demanding to leave 6 hours later. She'd take the 2mg "bar", just to calm down, without getting drowsy. The 0.25mg pill will put me to sleep for about 8 hours.

I'm happy to read any sources you might have.

Sources for what?

Aspirin metabolism is outlined here, with a bit more here. Salicylic acid is derived from willow bark (the name Salix from Latin for willow) and is the active form of the drug, resulting predominantly from first pass metabolism in the liver - although some also occurs in the intestine.

Or, did you want a reference for my criticism of your wooly thinking? My only source for that was your post, which I referenced and quoted. For all I know you could be usually quite sharp. If you have other examples of misinformed decisions based on warm-and-fuzzy concepts I will of course be happy to take a look.

Or, were you looking for a reference to the suggestion that taking excessive quantities of some drugs may cause ill effects? I think that's well established fact. Even your own inference that willow bark would be 'better' was based on that very idea. If we're going to accept these things have pharmacological action (which they do) it follows that inconsistent or excessive dosing is either going to limit effectiveness or cause harm. Natural products are intrinsically variable, ergo replacing aspirin with willow bark is introducing variability with the potential to limit effectiveness or cause harm.

I'm not arguing that willow bark "wouldn't work" I'm arguing against your suggestion that it would be in any way better. If you still genuinely think it would be I think the onus is on you to provide both a coherent argument why that is the case - and references to support it.

Azithromycin (in the form of a Tri-Pak) sure seems to make a dent in my sinus/bronchial infections.

We know how to cure Malaria, too... with Olive Leaf Extract. Known of for centuries before the discovery of Quinine, it has long been used to treat the condition.

... when a radical leftist president starts executing right wing militia people without due process, rush limbaugh will shit a brick. .

Well, constipation is the number one side effect of some things he's been known to take in the past.

First, you have not given any valid argument against the middle sentence of my post. An infant, whether breastfed or bottlefed or starved to death, has no way to express disagreement about anything, other than to cry, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. A consumer of manufactured products is in exactly the same situation.

Secondly, "99% of teat-sucking babies" (I might ask where you get your statistics) are nurtured by mothers who have the baby's welfare as their highest priority and who choose to keep harmful substances out of the feedstock: tobacco, alcohol, medical and environmental poisons. The remainder of babies are not so fortunate. http://www.drugs.com/cg/effects-of-smoking-alcohol-and-medicines-on-breastfeeding.html

Even if you do live in such a place, if you eat any amount of seaweed, iodized salt, deep sea fish, or meat regularly you have enough iodine to protect your thyroid. Heck, if you have any sort of well-balanced diet and eat whole foods instead of just doritos, twinkies, and Mt Dew, you'd have nothing to worry about.

http://www.weightlossforall.com/foods-rich-iodine.htm
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=69
http://www.brighthub.com/health/diet-nutrition/articles/45140.aspx

Besides, the amount of iodine you would need even if the worst case were to occur is minisule and easily absorbed through a balanced diet. Check out the radiation emergency section of the following article:

http://www.drugs.com/mtm/potassium-iodide.html

Why not spend the trivial amount for potassium iodide? Because unless you really, really need to take it (because you were within range of a criticality event, are working in a damaged reactor, are within fallout from a severe Chernobyle-scale accident which cannot happen with these Japanese reactors, etc) the risk to your liver is much higher than the risk of incidental radiation. Besides, you get exposed to more radiation from the TSA's crappy full body scanners than you would from the fallout from the reactors.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/118092749.html
http://www.9news.com/news/article/187711/188/Radiation-fears-Who-needs-nuke-pills-and-who-doesnt-

In the event of an erection that persists longer than 4 hours, the patient should seek immediate medical assistance. If priapism is not treated immediately, penile tissue damage and permanent loss of potency could result.

It takes >4 grams/day to overdose. It's far from "ridiculously easy". You can have 8 extra-strength Tylenol in a day and still be okay. /pharmicist

http://www.drugs.com/acetaminophen.html

The difference between the normal adult recommended max dosing on the package and toxic overdose is only a factor of two. That's for an average weight adult and not a skinny little 110-lb woman. Normal pediatric dosing is up to 105mg/kg/day (up to 5-doses a day at 10mg/kg) but the overdose threshold is only 150mg/kg/day. A 100-lb 12 year old taking the recommended dose is getting 72 mg/kg/day or about 1/2 the toxic dose. Forget letting your cat or dog eat the pill you accidentally dropped on the floor. Too often people don't know the difference between tsp and tbs or think its safe to double up on the dose.

Yeah, I would call that ridiculously easy to overdose.

Acetaminophen is not added to pure morphine, hence the qualifier "pure". Morphine Sulfate can be injected intramuscularly, subdermally, intravenously, and comes in immediate release, normal, extended release capsules, and even a suppository. Plenty of choices, and that's just one opioid out of the family. Heck, switching between, say, Tylenol 3 and MS-Contin is fairly trivial with an equianalgesic table.

The US does not add acetaminophen to all (most?) opioids. The combination of acetaminophen and opioids is beneficial, hence their popularity.

If it doesn't gross you out too much you may want to find and take part in a controlled study like this: http://www.drugs.com/forum/alternative-medicine/worms-crohns-disease-23351.html
Purposely infecting oneself with parasitic worms (helminths) and reaping the benefits of their immunosuppression. The results look promising.

Which "blue pill" would that be?

    There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".

    Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer

    Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer

    Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment

    Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid

    Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment

    I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.

    If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.

    He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.

    The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.

Which "blue pill" would that be?

    There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".

    Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer

    Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer

    Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment

    Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid

    Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment

    I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.

    If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.

    He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.

    The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.

Which "blue pill" would that be?

    There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".

    Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer

    Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer

    Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment

    Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid

    Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment

    I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.

    If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.

    He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.

    The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.

Which "blue pill" would that be?

    There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".

    Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer

    Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer

    Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment

    Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid

    Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment

    I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.

    If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.

    He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.

    The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.

Which "blue pill" would that be?

    There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".

    Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer

    Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer

    Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment

    Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid

    Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment

    I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.

    If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.

    He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.

    The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.

Just get her on Seasonale or an equivalent.

FluMist

Important information about FluMist
FluMist is a "live virus" vaccine. Influenza virus vaccine is also available in an injectable form, which is a "killed virus" vaccine. This medication guide addresses only the nasal spray form of this vaccine.

For at least 21 days after receiving FluMist, avoid close contact with anyone who has a weak immune system caused by disease (such as cancer, HIV, or AIDS), or by certain medicines such as steroids, cancer chemotherapy, or radiation treatment. A person with a weak immune system can become ill if they have close contact with you after you have recently received a an influenza vaccine.

It is very easy to make unsupported grandiose accusations against big corporations. "All the important work is publicly funded"? Completely false. Just look at the list of new drugs coming out from Big Pharm, http://www.drugs.com/newdrugs.html. Some of these are quite significant and not publicly funded.

Take a look at http://media.pfizer.com/files/research/pipeline/2009_0331/pipeline_2009_0331.pdf. Out of 100 clinical trials underway at Pfizer only 22 are "new indications or enhancements"

Could they be spending more on R&D and less on marketing? Probably. Are they spending large amounts of money on new research? definitely

The logic behind only researching improvements is flawed for a couple of reasons:

1. Viagra had to be invented somehow. There had to be R&D money spent to create it in the first place.

2. Diminishing returns; There is only so far one can push a drug. Eventually they will be unable to sustain growth. By creating new drugs they open new markets and therefore ensure the life of the company.

I work in the pharmaceutical industry. The Majority of the new drugs nowadays come from two sources. 1: IN-house micro-improvement. This is where you take (for example) Prilosec Make the S-enantiomer of it. This is enough change for a new patent. Call new product Nexium. 2: From Small bio-tech start ups that are mostly funded by government grants. If your product gets through Phase II you start to get casual calls from large Drug Makers (like Roche). If You make it through Phase 3 large companies (like Roche) then offer to buy your product. Its a perfect system for the large Drug makers. Micro-improvements are cheap to do in-house and you can let others do the hard work of researching a new drug while you simply scoop up the survivors. So Yes it is possible for the Acedemic/ govt funded research to hold up the entire pharmaceutical industry because it is doing that right now.

I work in the pharmaceutical industry. The Majority of the new drugs nowadays come from two sources. 1: IN-house micro-improvement. This is where you take (for example) Prilosec Make the S-enantiomer of it. This is enough change for a new patent. Call new product Nexium. 2: From Small bio-tech start ups that are mostly funded by government grants. If your product gets through Phase II you start to get casual calls from large Drug Makers (like Roche). If You make it through Phase 3 large companies (like Roche) then offer to buy your product. Its a perfect system for the large Drug makers. Micro-improvements are cheap to do in-house and you can let others do the hard work of researching a new drug while you simply scoop up the survivors. So Yes it is possible for the Acedemic/ govt funded research to hold up the entire pharmaceutical industry because it is doing that right now.

as a person who took lithium for years, i would like to point the kind readers to Lithium toxicity. regular blood tests are highly recommended to prevent your blood from going toxic and killing your ass.
while lithium bicarbonate worked well for me for several years, the side effects got worse and the drug became ineffective.
the toxic levels for lithium are close to the therapeutic levels.

Already exists. It's used in pediatrics for bradycardia (slow heart rate). http://www.drugs.com/ppa/caffeine.html

Great, another one to add to a long list.

Next, in tomorrow's news....

Fortunately, really dangerous stuff, like pot, or country moonshine, is very verbotten.

Congratulations, then, to our new absolutely guiltless overfolk.

The Old Man on the Mountain would be (or is) certainly proud of all these so very humane endeavours.

Prosit!

since i was 25 i got crohn disease, i had acne since i was 15, and after 10 years i was full of that stupid disease so i took this peace of crap - http://www.drugs.com/accutane.html - and as a present i got crohn and my acne didn't disappear :( i'm living with those two for 11 years and believe me, it's not easy... i'm really happy... http://www.crohns.org/treatment/vaccine.htm i hope it will help others too...

He could be referring to Cobal-1000 .

"To treat pernicious anemia, you will have to use this medication [Cobal-1000] on a regular basis for the rest of your life."

Or maybe it was just a typo...