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A Doctor's Prescription for Overloaded Lives Feb. 22, 2024
Bill Smith sits down to his most dreaded chore — paying bills. Every month, it's the same stor... Read More
State Might Cause a Shortage of the Latest New Wonder Drug Oct. 23, 2023
Magic-wand price caps harm the consumers they are said to help. When it comes to pharmaceuticals, su... Read More
Enbrel Makes the List Sep. 02, 2023
The U.S. government this week released the list of the 10 medications that will be the first to be t... Read More
Fly by Night, or a Mice Night's Sleep Aug. 16, 2023
A nice cut of filet mignon won't soon serve as a recommended alternative to warm milk or a dose of m... Read More
Best Places to Buy Eyeglasses Jun. 14, 2022
There are a number of ways to buy prescription eyeglasses, including from local opticians, independe... Read More
SCOTUS Needs to Clarify the Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers: Patients Suffer When Physicians Who Prescribe Opioids in Good Faith Can Face Decades in Prison Mar. 02, 2022
Xiulu Ruan, a board-certified Alabama pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison f... Read More
How Drug Warriors Made the 'Opioid Epidemic' Deadlier: Restricting Access to Pain Medication Drove Nonmedical Users Toward Black-Market Substitutes Jul. 29, 2021
According to the lawsuits that four drug companies agreed to settle last week, the "opioid epidemic"... Read More
Classic Ann Landers Jun. 06, 2021
Editor's Note: Hundreds of Ann Landers' loyal readers have requested that newspapers continue to pub... Read More
May 23, 2021 May. 23, 2021
Dear Annie: I work in an area where we are allowed to listen to the radio during work hours. This is... Read More
Scam Calls and Emails Target Young People, Too Apr. 12, 2021
DR. WALLACE: Help, I've been scammed! I thought the only victims who "got taken" by fraudulent email... Read More
Prescriptions Aren't Making Patients Safer Nov. 21, 2020
Illnesses are ignored, and chronic conditions go untreated as the coronavirus crisis conspires to ke... Read More
Do You Have Insomnia? Oct. 30, 2020
There used to be an old wives' tale that suggested older people needed a lot less sleep than younger... Read More
From Polypharmacy to Polypills: Where Will It Lead? Sep. 27, 2019
In September 2018, I talked about health issues related to "polypharmacy," a word new to me at the t... Read More
Can Damage Done by CDC's Opioid Guidelines Be Reversed? Agency's Acknowledgment of Suffering Caused by Its Prescribing Advice May Be Too Little, Too Late May. 01, 2019
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its opioid prescribing guidelines... Read More
The Thorny Problem of Finding Who's to Blame for Drug Overdoses Feb. 08, 2019
As prescription and illicit opioid overdose deaths continue to rise in the United States, lawsuits a... Read More
Food and Drug Interactions Jan. 18, 2019
You've probably heard the warnings not to drink grapefruit juice with blood thinners. However, that ... Read More
Punishing Patients Won't Reduce Opioid Deaths: A New Medicare Prescription Rule Will Aggravate Undertreatment of Pain Dec. 19, 2018
A patient with metastatic prostate cancer tried to kill himself after he could not get the medicatio... Read More
Raise Compassionate and Responsible Children Dec. 18, 2018
Dear Annie: I just finished watching a piece on the news about young people assaulting others and ca... Read More
Fentanyl Is the Latest Deadly Twist in America's Continuing Opioid Epidemic Dec. 05, 2018
The opioid epidemic has a deadly new star: fentanyl, which is easier to overdose with than prescript... Read More
