Medical prescription
‘People are dying’: A popular painkiller in Spain may have killer side effects
In Spain, the government is facing legal action over one of the country’s most popular prescription painkillers. A patients’ advocacy group claims the drug can have potentially fatal side effects. And Britons traveling in Spain may be most at risk.
Does Finding Purpose Have Health Benefits?
What if the old “apple-a-day” approach to health is wrong? Normally, we’re completely focused on the details of a prescription for a healthy life – an apple a day, eight hours of sleep, 30 minutes of exercise, no cigarettes, no saturated fats, limited sodium, and so on. But what if you started with the big-picture […]
Should Pharmaceutical Reps Have the Right to Doctors’ Prescription Histories?
How do you define the right to free speech? Some would argue it means being allowed to say what you believe, even when it’s not popular. Others would say it means getting a good look at what kind of prescriptions that your doctor has given you. At least, that’s the argument being made in a Supreme […]
