Saving Lives: Healthline to Debut Drug Notebook Social Platform

Want to know if anyone else has had an adverse reaction to a medication? If other consumers have side effects similar to your own? Healthline’s new Drug Notebook just may be the website to help you find answers. Finding out more about your medication, as well as the experiences of others using the same prescriptions, just got easier with Healthline’s new Drug Notebook social platform. No longer will you need to rely solely on your pharmacist or prescription flyer side effect information. Now you can compare notes with thousands of others to find out drug interactions, side effects, helpful instructions, and more. Healthline, one of the fastest growing online health services, is announcing today that they have formed a partnership...

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The Myth of a Perfect Holiday Season

Blogger Kate Hood, a flailing perfectionist, debunks the myth of the perfect holiday season, one that could only ever fit into the glittery confines of a snow globe. My mother tells a story about how she once spent the night before Christmas assembling 100 tiny plastic escalator steps in Barbie's shopping mall. Her parents were both in the hospital and she didn't actually start shopping for presents until Christmas Eve. She says there was nothing left in the stores—she had to buy the last of the picked-over toys. She was exhausted, defeated, and very unhappy about the pathetic display of junk that greeted her children that Christmas morning. Here is what I remember: "Barbie's shopping mall? YES!" A perfect example of how much parents...

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Deaths From Malaria Fall, But Funding Woes Loom: WHO

An increase in aid over the past decade, providing access to nets and medicines, has dramatically reduced deaths due to malaria, but the economic slowdown threatens to curb future progress. LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria deaths have fallen dramatically in the past decade thanks to increased aid allowing more people access to nets and medicines, but the economic slowdown threatens to curb future progress, the World Health Organization said  on Tuesday. In its annual global report on the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, the WHO said international funding for the fight against malaria rose to about $1.7 billion in 2010 and $2 billion in 2011, the highest annual amounts ever reached. But this is still far short of the estimated...

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ADHD Drugs Pose No Risk to Heart Health in Adults

Drugs used in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been deemed heart-safe for use in young and middle-aged adults. Drugs used in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been deemed heart-safe for use in young and middle-aged adults. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland found no link between the use of the drugs in adults, and an increase in the risk for serious heart-related events, such as heart attack and stroke. The new study is the second in a series of three commissioned by the U.S. government regarding the risks associated with such popular stimulant ADHD drugs as Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta, and non-stimulant drug Strattera,...

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