SAMPLE ARTICLES:

• Dangers of Statin Drugs. Is the “Cholesterol-Heart-Theory” true?

  Many people, especially those over 50,  are taking Statin drugs as prescribed by their doctors as preventive medicine in hope of preventing heart diseases and extend their lifespan by lowering their cholesterol levels based on the Cholesterol – Heart Hypothesis (theory). Is this theory true? Are you aware of the dangers of Statin drugs? Are you the unwitting victim of the “Statins – Cholesterol – Heart Hypothesis” that has created a multi-billion-dollar industry? If you are one of those people taking statins, you owe it to yourself to educate yourself. Keep reading to learn more.

• Antipsychotic Drugs – The Ignored Link to Mass Shootings

  Since the beginning of 1980s, mass shootings have been on the rise with many of these mass shootings taking place at schools killing many innocent children within minutes due to the use of semi-automatic rifles. There are 115 major mass shootings from 1982 to 2019.  From 1982 to 2011, there were 1-5 mass shooting each year. Starting from 2012, the number of mass shooting started to escalate to 5 –12 per year. There were 12 mass shootings in 2018 and 8 in 2019 by the end of August 31, 2019.

  Each time after a mass shooting, there was fierce debate on how to put an end to mass shooting. There are two school of thoughts. Gun advocates always stand by The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution which states: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Gun advocates argue that guns do not pull the trigger, people pull the trigger. They believe the shooters are mentally ill and we need to spend more money on mental health.

  Gun-control advocates believe we need to strengthen background check and ban automatic and semi-automatic rifles in order to put an end to mass shooting. Politicians have been debating this issue for decades and nothing has been resolved so far and meanwhile the number of mass shooting keeps escalating. Parents who send their children to school in the morning worry if they will see their children alive at the end of the day. I have been living in US since 1970, I notice over the years, one thing that is missing in public debates among politicians is “the link of psychotropic drugs & mass shootings”. Why is this link ignored? We might have to dig into some data and do some hard thinking here. Keep reading to learn more.

• Do you know how much  influence pharmaceutical reps (aka drug rep or drug pushers) have on your doctors?

  When I was a pharmacy staff in the late 1970’s and a pharmacy director in the 1980’s, the pharmaceutical representatives (drug reps), also known as “detail men” I encountered were mostly male pharmacists. I still remember what my Eli Lily rep, an older gentleman, told me: “When I tell people I am a pharmacist from Eli Lily, doors always open for me”.  Nowadays, as Carl Elliott puts it, the average drug rep looks like a supermodel, or maybe an A-list movie star. Drug reps today are mostly young women, well groomed, and strikingly good-looking. And they are always, hands down, the best-dressed people in the hospital.
  The number of drug reps has escalated over the years
  How much money is spent on drug reps to influence doctors’ prescribing habit? Keep reading to learn more.