Tag Archives: Medicines

Why Are You Taking Medicines Like Ambien

Millions of Men and women take Ambien or some other similar prescription drugs for sleeplessness, when scientific testing has repeatedly shown that in pretty much all cases of mild or common insomnia that is not the result of other serious medical conditions that the non invasive selection of Neurofeedback, or human brain training as it… Read More »

Coping with Prednisone, Revised and Updated: (*and Other Cortisone-Related Medicines)

Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection. In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed… Read More »

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries

A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread… Read More »