More Americans taking drugs for mental illness

Many more Americans have been using prescription drugs to treat mental illness since 1996, in part because of expanded insurance coverage and greater familiarity with the drugs among primary care doctors, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They said 73 percent more adults and 50 percent more children are using drugs to treat mental illness than in 1996. Full Story : YahooNews.com……

Harvard Medical Students Rebel Against Pharma-Ties

200 Harvard Medical School STUDENTS are confronting the administration demanding an end to pharmaceutical industry influence in the classroom. The revolt began when a first year medical student “grew wary” when a professor promoted cholesterol drugs and “seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.” He later discovered that the professor, a full-time Harvard Medical faculty member, was a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including manufacturers of cholesterol drugs. Full Story : Ahrp.org…..

Cure For Tuberculosis

According to a research, Tuberculosis is resistant to many current treatments, but now, it can be overcome with aggressive therapy. TB is associated with high rates of mortality and it is responsible for at least 7% of cases of the infection worldwide. Researchers have proved that the cure is possible with a combination of at least 5 drugs. MDR TB is a Multi-drug resistant TB, and it  is resistant to the commonly used treatments such as isoniazid and rifampin. With this treatment almost half of XDR-TB patients and 67% of MDR-TB patients had treatment cure or completion.

Vitamin C Can Treat Cancer

New research with mice proved that doses of vitamin C given intravenous could reduce the size of cancerous tumors in people. The findings are not proved in humans yet, but the combination with other drugs may cure cancer, the researchers said.

Vitamin C has been one of the most respected of all vitamins, and it is used to treat many ills, from colds to heart disease. But scientists are working hard to prove that it also can cure cancer.

Recovery From Heroin

A study compared the effectiveness of naltrexone (a standard treatment for heroin addiction), buprenorphine and placebo in treating drug addiction. The U.S researchers proved that Buprenorphine helps heroin addicts to stay clean for more number of days compared to other treatments. According to the study, buprenorphine performed best in maintenance of heroin abstinence, prevention of relapse, and reduction of HIV risk behavior of patients.

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Songs promote Drugs and Sex?

Rap in the fore front having seventy-seven percent of songs making reference to drugs or sex, on average thirty-three percent of popular songs contain explicit content and forty-two percent of songs hint at substance abuse. Only fourteen percent of Rock songs contain offending lyrics.