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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Generic Drug Prices Vary Wildly, Study Finds
According to the FDA, generic drugs are identical to their more expensive name-brand counterparts. However, if you opt for generics when given a prescription by your doctor, you could be doing serious unnecessary harm to your wallet if you don’t shop around at a few pharmacies first, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Consumer Reports, looked at the cost of a one-month supply of five different popular drugs at over 200 pharmacies across the country. All of the drugs involved in the study had only recently gone generic. Shockingly, the researchers found that the lowest-priced pharmacies were about 447% cheaper than the most expensive pharmacies. Lisa Gill, who regularly covers prescription drugs for Consumer Reports, said that “irrational pricing” is common in the immediate wake of a prescription drug going generic.
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Are You Giving Your Baby Solid Food Too Soon?
Different mothers have different opinions regarding breastfeeding versus formula, and the time at which parents introduce solid food seems to vary as well. In fact, over 40% of moms are giving babies solid food earlier than is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Specifically, this was true of 53% of moms who fed their babies formula, and 24% of moms who breastfed their babies. The AAP recommends that mothers wait until their infants are 6 months old before starting them on solid food. The AAP previously recommended that moms wait until their children reach 4 months of age, but that recommendation has now changed. Breast milk, formula and vitamin supplements are the only foods an infant should consume before reaching 6 months of age.
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CDC: Meals for Toddlers are Too Salty
A new study conducted by the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds that the majority of packaged meals designed for toddlers exceed the recommended toddler salt intake. Over 1,100 meals were examined in the study. Of these, almost 75% had excessive levels of salt. At worst, the meals had up to 630 mg of sodium. The American Heart Association recommends that children receive no more than 1,500 mg of sodium over the course of an entire day. Excessive sodium intake in children can lead to high blood pressure, just as it does in adults. If a child is already overweight, the risk for developing hypertension will skyrocket with the over-consumption of salt. Limiting the number of processed and packaged foods given to toddlers might be the first step towards preventing high blood pressure in young children.
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The Psychological Dangers of False Positive Mammograms
A new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark indicates that false positive mammograms can inflict lasting psychological damage on women, even when women later find that they actually don’t have breast cancer. In terms of values, calmness and other identifiers of mental well-being, women in the trial who were given a false alarm following a mammogram scored about the same six months after the mammogram as women who indeed had cancer. The researchers say their study is evidence that false positive mammograms are anything but harmless, even when women receive positive news eventually. According to the American Cancer Society, around 232,570 invasive cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States. It is the most common form of cancer in women.
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High-Fat Dairy Boosts Death Risk in Breast Cancer Patients
Women with breast cancer can increase their chances of survival by avoiding high-fat dairy foods, according to a recent breast cancer dairy study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. About 12% of the women with breast cancer in the study who consumed at least one daily serving of high-fat dairy died over the course of the 12-year study. In comparison, less than 1% of the women who only consumed under half a serving of high-fat dairy daily died from their cancer. The researchers believe that this is due to the high levels of estrogen found in high-fat dairy products. Avoiding dairy might be a worthwhile strategy, as the American Cancer Society predicts that 40,000 women will die because of their breast cancer in 2014. Over 200,000 women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis next years as well.
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