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Move over
Rolaids and Tylenol. Step aside Tums and Seldane. If
you spell relief D-R-U-G-S, you might want to consider the effects
of doing so.
First there are the obvious side-effects of drugs. The pharmaceuticals that millions of people turn to for relief from pain,…
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This past spring, researchers revisited a tantalizing finding from the annals of public health. In 1990, researchers had found lower levels of suicide, homicide, rape, and other crimes in Texas counties where the municipal water supply had higher than average levels of naturally occurring lithium salts. The new, finer-grained study looked at a prefecture in Japan. Again, communities with more lithium in the drinking water had lower levels of suicide. The results were striking enough that an editorialist in the British Journal of Psychiatry seriously suggested exploring the utility of adding lithium to drinking water, “as the eventual benefits for community mental health may be considerable.” Read More »
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Antidepressants make you feel a whole lot better, but you're pregnant so now what? Should you continue to take your medication or should you flush it down the toilet…
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Nobody--not even Kelly Ripa--is cheerful all the time. If you can't shake the blues, here's what you need to know. Depression disproportionately affects women. According to…
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In your efforts to get as fertility-friendly as possible, you've stripped your partner of his tighty-whitey collection, you're religiously taking your vitamins, and you've permanently turned off the seat-heaters in your car. Now it may be time for the two of you to consider how his medication may be affecting the health of his sperm as well.
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