women’s health
07/26/2018
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By Russel Davis
Doctors are wildly over-prescribing opioids painkillers after C-section procedures
Three recent studies published in Obstetrics & Gynecology revealed an excessive number of opioid painkillers are being prescribed to women following a Cesarian-section delivery. This fuels the risk of drug misuse, the researchers said. According to recent statistics, C-sections are the most common inpatient surgery in the U.S., with as many as 1.3 million operations being performs annually. However, the […]
12/15/2017
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By Zoey Sky
Legal drugs kill more people than illegal ones: Research shows prescription drugs are the 3rd leading cause of death
According to Peter C. Gøtzsche, a Danish physician and medical researcher, prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Based on the findings that Gøtzsche studied, it is possible that “psychiatric drugs alone are also the third major killer,” and this is primarily due to antidepressants causing the deaths of […]
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