CBS 3) GLENSIDE When you go to the drug store and buy generic prescriptions, you might assume you’re getting the lowest possible price. Maybe not! 3 On Your Side’s Jim Donovan says, there’s a new store in town that says, it can get generics even cheaper than the chain pharmacies.
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January is the traditional diet season, but consumers should be wary of pills promising quick results – and not just because the vast majority do not work. FDA has issued a warning about two brands of diet pills made in Brazil and marketed in the US as dietary supplements which have been found to contain […]
NEW YORK - The antidepressant Prozac may help relieve certain emotional disturbances in patients who’ve suffered a stroke, Korean researchers report.
Despite recent concerns about antidepressant medicines, and the poor image of electroconvulsive (shock) therapy, these are the two most effective treatments for moderate to severe depression, researchers said in a January 14 article. Published in the journal Lancet, the article was intended as a “corrective” for some reports indicating that suicidal thoughts may increase after […]
When he first entered psychoanalysis as a patient, this 22-year-old Marshall scholar envisaged his future as that of a melancholic, isolated writer. Instead, he uncovered a repressed desire to become a psychiatrist. Through the years, Peter Kramer, M.D., has interwoven the two careers of writer and clinical psychiatrist and followed a life path that he […]