medication
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This Sticker Automatically Injects Meds When A Chemo Patient Can’t
Chemotherapy is a brutal but often life-saving treatment for an even worse disease. It can also reduce a patient’s white blood cell count which hinders the body’s ability to fight off infections, so injections of Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) are given the day after to help boost production. And to ensure those injections are given a full…
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7UP Once Contained Prescription Mood Stabilisers
Today I found out that the soft drink 7UP used to include a psychiatric medication as one of its ingredients. The lemon-lime flavoured soft drink was created by Charles Grigg of the Howdy Corporation in 1929 and first launched two weeks before the stock market crash that spurred the Great Depression!
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This Pillbox Will Guilt You Into Remembering To Take Your Meds
It’s staggering to see how many pills seniors have to take every day, but not as overwhelming as the ridiculous number of organisers they can buy to help them remember which pill is taken when. And at the top of the heap is this $US250 pill-sorting contraption that actually needs to be programmed with accompanying…
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Is Viagra Making You Deaf?
As if Viagra users didn’t have enough to worry about—now they’re being told that the impotence drug could be causing sudden hearing loss. In the UK, official healthcare watchdogs are looking into it, after receiving numerous complaints.