Tag Antidepressant

Anti-depressants ‘up stroke risk’

Aspirin is prescribed for high cholesterol,it also causes intestinal bleeding.
Pain killers cause serious after effects.
Scans increase the risk to cancer.
Diuretics damage kidneys.
Cancer inducing genes identified now;yet we have already cured it.
Caffeine was perceived to be carcinogenic;now it reduces cancer risk also prevents heart disease.
Take any medicine, you have the same ambivalence.
Or take any prognosis-as many number of opinions as that of specialists.
Is Medicine a Science?

Sedatives, Mood-Altering Drugs Related to Falls Among Elderly: UBC Study

Nothing can replace physical work ,open air, sea and sky for curing depression and insomnia.Any drug,whether habit forming or not,barbiturate based or not, will cause only serious side effects.One may note people above fifty normally fall in the bath room and in most cases it is the onset of further disorders coming to the fore.Safe it is for the elderly not to lock the bathroom/toilet from inside and keep people informed in advance that the room is engaged.It is the safest prevention from calamity.I have known at least two cases of people around 50,in robust health, having had a fatal heart attack while they were in the bathroom.