Consumer Reports has published a valuable article identifying common prescription drugs that can be dangerous for older patients. Healthcare consumers over age 65 are more than twice as likely to suffer from adverse drug reactions; the publication lists the following drugs as posing a high enough risk that they should be avoided if possible: Antianxiety [...]
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A list of dangerous drugs — and safer alternatives — for seniors
October 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Ambien · Anti Depression Medication · Anxiety · Ativan · Depression Medication · Drug safety · Flomax · Paxil · Prozac · Valium · Xanax · Zoloft · Zyrtec
Drug commercial parodies — a roundup
April 26th, 2008 · No Comments
As you know, we like to post links to parodies of pharmaceutical commercials. Rather than publish these individually, though, I thought I’d provide all these links in a single roundup post. Here are some popular parodies of current drug ads — one for each drug. (Be warned that some of them are a little off-color.) [...]
Tags: Cialis · Drug commercial parodies · Lipitor · Mirapex · Viagra · Zoloft
The dangers of anti-depressants
January 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Fox News ran a provocative story Thursday slamming Big Pharma for overhyping the benefits — and downplaying the dangers — of anti-depressants such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and Effexor. You can read the transcript here or watch the piece below. Frankly, it’s surprising to me to see this kind of anti-Big Pharma slant from Fox [...]
Tags: eDrugSearch.com · Effexor · Paxil · Prescription drug abuse · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Prozac · Zoloft
Abilify: No. 1 and climbing
November 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments
The most searched-for drug on eDrugSearch.com for the past two months has been Abilify, which treats the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Initially approved in November 2002, more than 12.5 million prescriptions have been written for Abilify in the United States as of June 2007. Expect those numbers to continue [...]
Tags: Abilify · Depression Medication · Lexapro · Paxil · Prescriptions · Prozac · Zoloft
Top 25 prescription drug searches
October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
We thought it would be of interest to pharma bloggers and others to share a monthly list of the most-searched-for medications and medical conditions on eDrugSearch.com. Here are the top 25 searches for the month of September: 1. High Blood Pressure 2. Abilify 3. Provigil 4. Yasmin 5. Lipitor 6. Lamisil 7. Synthroid 8. Levitra [...]
Tags: Abilify · Crestor · eDrugSearch.com · Lamisil · Levitra · Lipitor · Meridia · Plavix · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Provigil · Synthroid · Topamax · Viagra · Vytorin · Xenical · Yasmin · Zetia · Zoloft
Better nutrition now, fewer pills later
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments
In this 10-minute video, Natalie, a lovely Austin, Texas-based nutritionist, discusses how to improve your diet so you can take fewer statins (cholesterol drugs like Simvastatin), proton pump inhibitors (drugs for heartburn and acid reflux like Nexium and Prilosec) and antidepressants (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.)
Tags: Nexium · Prilosec · Prozac · Simvastatin · Zoloft
The drug rep’s moral dilemma
August 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
We stumbled across a kind of soap opera/game show called “Moral Dilemmas” on a site called BustedHalo.com and thought we’d share it, since it involves a pharma rep. Basically, the idea is to tell a story that sets up a moral dilemma, and then let visitors to the site debate what the character should do [...]
Tags: eDrugSearch.com · Online pharmacies · Pharma cheerleaders · Pharmaceutical companies · Prozac · Zoloft
Another reason to comparison shop with eDrugSearch.com
August 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
If you believe the comedy troupe Secret Pants, it can be dangerous to shop over the phone with brick-and-mortar pharmacies:
Tags: Depression Medication · eDrugSearch.com · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Zoloft
If Big Pharma isn’t picking your pocket, the big drugstore chains are
December 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Rite Aid Corp. — the third-biggest drugstore chain, which recently agreed to buy the Eckerd and Brooks chains as well — has seen its profits rise of late after its introduction of generic versions of drugs such as Zoloft. Why? Because generic medications carry a higher profit margin for the big chains than brand-name drugs. [...]
Tags: Generic drugs · Online pharmacies · Zoloft