Drug Articles

  • The marketing of Sarafem
  • One of the more disturbing trends over the last few years has been the increase in advertising for prescription drugs on television. This has occurred as a result of a change in the policy of the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) in 1997 regarding how drugs can be advertised...
  • The Price of Drugs
  • I recently wrote an article on the drug Sarafem and the way its manufacturer Eli Lilly has marketed it. As mentioned in the article this is but one drug that has been widely advertised due to the Food and Drug Administration opening up the regulations regarding drug advertisements...
  • Children and Drugs
  • In the New York Times on Sunday August 19th, a front page article reported on impending legislation to bar schools and child protection services from telling parents they must put their children on drugs to treat conditions such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and ADHD...
  • Antibiotics and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Some recent studies have shown a link between Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and the use of antibiotics. Although acute antibiotic associated diarrhea is well known, these studies have shown a connection between short-term use of antibiotics and more persistent irritable bowel symptoms...
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • One of the most common medical treatments being given today is forms of hormone replacement therapy for women going through and after the menopause. One of the most important reasons for this treatment is the prevention of osteoporosis, a deterioration in the quality and strength of bones due to hormonal changes during this time...
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer
  • I have written on this subject before, but a recent report published in the medical journal JAMA on February 13, 2002, has concluded that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases risk for breast cancer. In the study mentioned, investigators evaluated whether risk for HRT-associated breast cancer differs by histological type (area of breast affected)...
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy: An example of medical intervention gone wrong?
  • n the last two months, there have been revelations in the media on the problems of long-term hormone therapy use. A new study that tracked thousands of women for nearly twenty years revealed that women who took estrogen were, on average, 1.5 times more likely to develop ovarian cancer...