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  The 2012 Consumer's Report's annual prescription poll shows many Americans cannot afford to pay for the multiple prescriptions, doctor visits, or multitude of lab tests ordered by their physicians. About 45% of US adults take an average of 4.1 drugs and among those between 18 and 39 years of age take an average of 2 prescriptions. A stunning...

An article published in the December 2014 supplement of Medical Care presented 14 original studies promoting the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the military to manage PTSD. They reported that CAM programs are now offered in 90% of VA hospitals today for chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, and depression. They can do this because they are...

Researchers from the University of Florida Medical Center anonymously interviewed 55 MDs in a drug addiction recovery program to find out the reasons why abused pharmaceutical drugs. They published their results in the  2013 issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. They learned that they used these drugs to manage pain, for psychiatric...

A special editorial written by Donald Wright from Harvard University and published in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics pointed out that 90% of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective than drugs that are already on the market! They also commented that the safety of new FDA approved drugs is low....