If you’re one of the millions of Americans who has bought lower-cost medication from Canada or...
Drugs and alcohol
How safe are generic drugs?
An op-ed by Katherine Eban in The New York Times exposes the FDA’s lax regulatory oversight...
How to avoid harm from prescription drug overload
Medications can treat symptoms, prevent disease, and even extend our lives. But can taking too many...
PPIs found to increase risk of kidney failure
Routine use of proton pump inhibitors, common over-the-counter medications used to treat acid...
Millions safely import low-cost drugs from abroad
In 2017, Kaiser Health News reported that 19 million Americans import their prescription drugs from...
Six things to know about your over-the-counter medications
Over-the-counter medications are drugs you can buy without a prescription to treat common problems...
Talk to your doctor before taking a cold medicine
With cold and flu season in full swing, people with high blood pressure that is not controlled well...
FDA permits doctors to implant untested medical devices at...
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee describe how the FDA...
Five ways to ensure the people you love are safe and healthy
At least once a year, every caregiver should engage the older people they love in what can be...
If Merck knew that Fosamax causes bone fractures and kept...
How would you feel if you were harmed by a medicine you took as prescribed and then learned that...