How to Take a Pill

Stop taking your pills the way you’ve been taking them.  It’s the wrong way! Or, so a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University says.  The study simulated how pills and tablets dissolve in the human stomach and are released into the upper intestine. As soon as you take a pill, it begins a…

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Too Many Pills

Guess what? Antibiotics are being over-prescribed and overused. Why are we not surprised? What is shocking, however, is just how overused they actually are.   A new study recently published in the BMJ estimates that nearly 25% of antibiotics are inappropriately prescribed. That’s a staggering, unacceptable statistic. When antibiotics are overused, they become ineffective. As bacteria…

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