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Should you use brand name or generic prescription drugs?

You should of course avoid putting drugs into your body unless it’s absolutely necessary, but sometimes you need them. Maybe you just had a root canal done and the pain requires a prescription strength pain killer, like Vicodin. Should you buy the brand name “Vicodin”, or the generic form of the exact same pain killer?

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Breakthrough blood test detects very early stages of cancer

A team of researchers at Stanford developed a new tool to detect cancer markers in your blood earlier than any other device currently used in medicine. Detecting cancer in its earliest forms dramatically increases your chance of surviving this deadly disease. Here is information about this amazing breakthrough.

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New Alzheimer’s drug can restore memory instantly

Doctors are calling for a clinical trial of an experimental drug treatment that it is claimed can reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease “in minutes”. U.S. researchers say the treatment allowed an 82-year-old sufferer to recognize his wife for the first time in years.

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Common medical myths

We’ve all heard the saying, every remembers a lie and nobody remembers the truth. You’ve also probably heard things like, we only use 10% of our brain, or turkey makes you tired because of the tryptophan. Lots of scientists have done tons of research in the last century, and we know a lot more now than we did then. So here is a list of some of the most widely-believed medical myths that are still being told as the truth.

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