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Lung Cancer Unawareness

As we close the doors on Lung Cancer Awareness Month, do you wonder why it went by completely unpublicized? Why the NFL players didn’t sport incongruous ribbons and accessories in the color designated for the illness? IS there a color designated for lung cancer, a disease that kills more than 156,000 people per year? That’s […]

Drug Shortages: President Obama’s executive order

With the huge numbers of baby boomers rapidly aging and becoming more dependent on medications, drug shortages are reaching national crisis stage. Medicines in short supply include cancer treatments, pain medications, and anesthesia drugs, along with other lifesaving and critical drugs. The need has increased dramatically in the last five years, but production has not […]

An Epidemic of Poisoned Kids

A recent study by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, published online in the Journal of Pediatrics, cites an alarming increase in the number of children under five years of age poisoned at home by accidentally ingesting medications. Approximately 95% of those poisonings were the result of children taking medicines […]

September Was Pain Awareness Month

Everybody has pain. In hard numbers, about 75 million American suffer from chronic pain, including epidemic proportions of people with “invisible” causes, like fibromyalgia, lupus, or Crohn’s disease. People with pain, especially those without a visible cause, often face skepticism, derision, and  exasperation from families tired of hearing excuses. It’s difficult for other people to […]