Questions tagged [medications]
Use this tag for medical drugs, medications, pharmaceuticals etc. For other questions about drugs, use [recreational-drugs].
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Is drug development far cheaper than Big Pharma wants us to believe?
In an article titled "The Make-Believe Billion - How drug companies exaggerate research costs to justify absurd profits" in Slate the author writes about a new study about the costs of drug ...
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Does Modafinil make you smarter?
Modafinil (Wikipedia link) is a drug approved in many countries for specific medical conditions such as narcolepsy. We don't, however, have a good idea how it works.
But is is one of several drugs (...
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Is there a correlation between mass-murder and use of psychoactive prescription drugs such as SSRIs?
It seems to be a commonly-held belief that there is a strong correlation between the use of prescription drugs such as SSRIs and mass-shooters. For instance, this claim:
Every mass shooting over last ...
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Has the primary benefit of statins in reducing early deaths never been fully tested in comparative trials?
Ben Goldacre, in his sustained critique of the way the pharmaceutical industry and its regulators fall far from the standards of reliable evidence (Bad Pharma), makes an astounding claim (p193 of the ...
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Can Scopolamine turn people into mindless "zombies"?
Vice did a report about scopolamine dubbing it as the world's scariest drug. The story is that people being given that drug can be told to do anything, similar to some popular claims about hypnosis ...
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Does soursop cure cancer?
I was linked a website about the effect soursop has in fighting cancer. The website heavily implies that soursop is an effective cancer treatment similar to chemo.
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Chemotherapy is a widely ...
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Have any "cures" been invented since the 1950's or so? [closed]
A well reputed professor of neurology once mentioned to me that no drugs have been invented to cure human afflictions since the 1950's or 60's. Are there any drugs that have been invented since that ...
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Are antipsychotic drugs vastly overused in the US?
A recent opinion piece in Al Jazeera titled "Mass psychosis in the US" claims that antipsychotic drugs are overused in the US, mostly due to the influence of "Big Pharma" which is pushing new atypical ...
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Is nicotine a relatively safe substance?
I've always thought that nicotine has really bad health effects.
Interestingly enough, I've found the following statement on the website of one of the major Nicotine Replacement Therapy products ...
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Did Lance Armstrong use EPO?
Lance Armstrong has recently been "stripped" of his Tour de France titles by the USADA. They state, among other allegations:
(1) Use and/or attempted use of prohibited substances and/or methods ...
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Is hydroxychloroquine + zinc + antibiotics an effective treatment for COVID-19?
It's often claimed, for example, in this Spectrum News report that a drug combination of hydroxychloroquine and zinc and antibiotics is an effective early treatment for COVID-19.
Researchers at NYU's ...
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Is fever (temperature) below 106° F harmful?
Parents and pediatricians rush to treat low grade fever with acetaminophen and other powerful pain killers. Medical researchers refer to the over zealous treatment of non hazardous fever as fever ...
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Does sweating help to cure the flu
Many people advise you to put some warm clothes on, get under the blankets and sweat a lot to help cure flu/fever.
On one hand there is a lot of opinion on the Internet saying that it does not work, ...
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Have statins been responsible for a major reduction in cardiovascular disease?
Statins are a range of pharmaceuticals that inhibit the body's ability to produce "bad" cholesterol thereby reducing the amount in the blood. Lower LDL levels in the blood are known to be associated ...
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Does acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen (known as paracetamol outside the USA), ...
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