Category: Health & Medical

“The basic deficiency in beverages such as Gatorade for illness-related dehydration is that there is too much sugar and not enough salt (sodium) or potassium,” Texas A&M pharmacy professor offers a better plan for rehydrating during flu season.

The opioid crisis is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. So why would the FDA crack down on a substance that may be helping millions of addicts get off drugs like heroin and Oxycontin?

The Shionogi treatment had proven “significantly faster” at killing the flu, more conveniently, and that the compound offered “improved tolerability” vs. Tamiflu.

..the companies said they are working toward building an independent company focused on technology solutions “that will provide [their] US employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.”

This year’s flu outbreak is already one of the worst on record. Making the threat worse is a shortage of IV saline. This shortage expose a dangerous flaw in the medical supply chains that everyone relies on. to counter disease outbreaks or bio-terrorism. If these weaknesses are not addressed we are headed for disaster.