Product Description: Adverse reactions to prescription medicines are now a leading cause of death in America. Medicines are powerful treatments but unpredictable. They don’t work the same in everyone, much like how chocolate has a different effect on your pet than it does on you...read more

Shares recommendations for treating fifty common medical conditions using alternative and complementary methods, in an alphabetically organized reference that rates various options for affordability and effectiveness. Reprint.

Product Description: From the New York Times bestselling authors of The People?s Pharmacy®, a reliable resource for remedies and treatment?now in an easy-to-use trade format. After more than three decades as one of the world?s premier sources for authoritative, trustworthy health information, The People?s Pharmacy® delivers its most groundbreaking resource yet, identifying bestchoice treatments for hundreds of common medical conditions that smart health-care consumers want to know about...read more

What is an opportunistic infection? How are drugs trialed? What is pharming? The 'Why Science Matters' series demonstrates how the science we learn at school is important in every aspect of our everyday lives. Using case studies and investigations, the series describes the development of science and technologies that can improve our lives or lead to new scientific challenges and controversies. In 'Finding Better Medicines', we learn how the body fights illness and infection and sometimes needs the help of medicines to be cured. We find how some drugs we now take for granted (such as aspirin and penicillin) were developed, how pharmaceutical companies research and improve new drugs, and how advanced technologies such as genetic engineering can be used to create plants and animals that can be farmed for medicines.

A lighthearted guide by the author of the 'Dear Pharmacist' column counsels readers on preventing and treating common health conditions with traditional and alternative options, identifying a wealth of natural treatments that the author believes are less disruptive to physical balance. Original.

Product Description: Doctors and pharmacists spend years studying to become eligible for state licensure, yet patients are expected to know a lot about their drugs without much provided information. It is often assumed that patients know about their drugs and classifications, but this is not usually the case...read more

Offering up-to-date information on high-use, high-abuse drugs and their impact on today's society, this edition has been expanded to reflect the most recent research and the most relevant topics.

Product Description: About half of all the medicines prescribed by doctors are not taken by their patients. One of the reasons most commonly given by patients for not taking drugs is that they feel unhappy about taking medicines which they do not understand and of which they are afraid...read more

Product Description: The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral contraceptive, have altered all of our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "In the sketches unfolding on the following pages, the reader gets glimpses into the history of some of the leading drugs which happened to be either serendipitously discovered or were deliberately created through the ingenuities of drug design...read more

A comprehensive guide to commonly used prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and other drugstore products gives readers the power to protect themselves at the doctor's office and in the pharmacy by listing drug interactions, serious side effects, and safer alternative remedies. Reprint.

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Evaluates prescription and non-prescription drugs and more than one hundred treatments, and lists recommended products and products to avoid

Discusses the development, naming, and introduction of drugs, looks at the history and effect of specific drugs, and depicts common attitudes towards drugs

A comprehensive guide to prescription and over-the-counter drugs discusses food, drug, and vitamin interactions, nutritional supplements, drug symptoms and side effects, ineffective drugs, and other special features

Describes side effects, dosage, brand name, and purpose for more than three hundred prescription drugs, and discusses ways to help prevent drug abuse

This guide to prescription and over-the-counter-drugs includes evaluations of name brand products, a drug interaction guide, and explanations of recent medical discoveries

Describes the active ingredients, effectiveness, and side effects of prescription and nonprescription drugs, including contraceptives and drugs used to treat menstrual problems, menopause, fertility problems, anemia, and cancer

Provides information on the uses, characteristics, side effects, and generic names of more than 500 prescription drugs