http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com The symptoms of insomnia can run the gamut or be as simple as not sleeping enough. There are many ways to find out if you suffer from a sleep disorder or if you have insomnia. Insomnia is a disorder that affects most people who are in their declining year... http://www.a1articles.com/article_682445_17.html 04th November 2008 There are many stories on the internet (and elsewhere) about people who take ambien expecting a good night’s sleep, and then wake up to discover that they have been eating peanut-butter sandwiches during the night — personally, the only way I’d ever... http://www.a1articles.com/article_682387_23.html 04th November 2008 Call it a game. Call it a contest. Call it a war! On one side you have the champions of the people, the white knights at the FDA whose job it is to protect consumers from the pharmaceutical industry’s worst excesses. On the other side are ranged the bes... http://www.a1articles.com/article_679572_17.html 31st October 2008 Experts on sleep are converging on Glasgow this September for the annual conference of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS). In celebration, let's take Scotland as our point of interest for this post. As a country, Scotland has a population of some ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_679196_17.html 30th October 2008 Let’s start with the headline and get over the shock value. Then we can discuss the issues more calmly. Accutane is a very successful treatment for acne. Unfortunately there are side effects. In female patients, it causes miscarriages, premature births ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678556_17.html 30th October 2008 If you are trying to lose weight, but feel that it’s pointless because you smoke, now’s your chance to take advantage of the advances made in the medical field. Acomplia is a doctor prescri... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678084_23.html 30th October 2008 Those nice people from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have issued new guidelines to doctors in the UK recommending they make greater use of Acomplia. NICE has the responsibility of leading the fight against obesity. It ha... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678065_23.html 30th October 2008 On 15th July, the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies Congress began a discussion of the medicinal role of cannabis. It is routinely used for controlling nausea among patients on chemotherapy and for encouraging appetite among AIDS patients. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678032_23.html 30th October 2008 This week has seen real drama in the boardroom of Sanofi-Aventis, the company that manufactures the weight loss medication Acomplia so popular in Europe. This company is the third ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678018_23.html 30th October 2008 Let's start with a few facts. If dieting was the way to lose weight, noone would have a weight problem. Similarly, if physical exercise was the key to slimming, even the most reluctant couch po... http://www.a1articles.com/article_678006_23.html 30th October 2008 There is a tendency to think that an antibiotic like Doxycycline is the most effective treatment for any and every ailment. The marketeers for the larger pharmaceutical manufacturers deserve... http://www.a1articles.com/article_677927_17.html 30th October 2008 The brand managers for the companies that develop antibiotics have managed a neat trick. They have convinced the majority of people that their products will cure all ills. It’s something the snake oil salesmen tried in the late 1800s and early twentieth... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675276_17.html 27th October 2008 The headline news is that bacteria do not cause acne. The medical evidence is absolutely clear. All those pimples and zits are caused by excess hormones in your skin. This triggers the sebaceous glands to produce more sebum, a substance like oil that lubr... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675209_17.html 27th October 2008 Asthma has been reported in literature over the last two thousand years. As a medical condition, however, it was considered relatively uncommon and most people grew out of it as they passed through their teenage years. Although a small percentage of peopl... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675173_17.html 27th October 2008 Let’s start off with two facts. Prednisone was approved for use in 1955. It is a corticosteroid that reduces inflammation and so helps to treat arthritis. When a drug has a track record of more than fifty years, you respect its effectiveness. No medicat... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675100_17.html 27th October 2008 When spring comes and buds threaten to turn into leaves, many look forward to summer little realizing the danger that lurks in the undergrowth. Now, wherever you see green think danger. The dreaded poison ivy and oak are on the warpath, and they are out t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675073_17.html 27th October 2008 It’s easy to say that people should not be upset if they get a few spots. Acne is not a serious medical problem. There’s some discomfort and, occasionally, minor pain, but this is not a disorder or disease that ranks as a major sickness. Yet our socie... http://www.a1articles.com/article_675044_17.html 27th October 2008 One of the stereotypes of an alcoholic is that of an overweight individual. There are two main reasons for this The first is that people who spend a lot of their time drinking tend not to be physically active. They sit comfortably at home on a couch with... http://www.a1articles.com/article_561025_23.html 23rd June 2008 Ask anyone with back pain and they are likely to tell you a story about what they were doing when they were "injured". It is often something trivial. I twisted awkwardly as I was getting out of the car or as I was lifting the bag of groceries out of the t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_546994_17.html 25th May 2008 Getting a good night's sleep is so easy for the majority but, when something goes wrong with this natural reaction to physical tiredness, the way you feel the next day can be serious. It can be simply that you feel excessively tired. You walk around in a ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_543310_17.html 21st May 2008 Whatever you read about acomplia and weight loss, there is one constant. Acomplia on its own cannot reduce your weight. It is designed to work alongside a low-calorie diet and physical exercise. So what kind of activity should people adopt? The idea of... http://www.a1articles.com/article_543255_23.html 21st May 2008 There has been a wealth of research into what causes pain. It is a symptom or warning of an underlying medical problem. Researchers can describe in detail how the sensation is transmitted from its source to the brain so we become aware of the problem and ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_540295_17.html 20th May 2008 Ultram is marketed in some seventy countries around the world for the treatment of moderate to severe pain in multiple dose format. The simple rule is that the dose should be individualised so that each person takes the smallest dose required to produce t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_535271_17.html 11th May 2008 I am always impressed by a well-rounded acronym. It shows the research team is delighted by both science and language. In this case, we have the cumbersome An International Study of Rimonabant in Dyslipidemia with Atherogenic Risk in Abdominally Obese Pat... http://www.a1articles.com/article_535256_23.html 11th May 2008 In 2006 in the US, the clinical gold standard for insomnia was controlled-release Ambien. Millions of prescriptions a year were and are written. Moving across the Atlantic, the situation is no less “impressive”. According to the latest figures, there ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_534636_17.html 11th May 2008 Disability is all in the eye of the beholder. If someone has lost a limb or has some equally visible sign of a physical problem, the reaction is usually sympathetic. But take away the more obvious visual clues, and how the general public will react become... http://www.a1articles.com/article_534322_17.html 09th May 2008 This is a word of introduction and explanation. “They” thought it should start this way so that you’d all understand how and why all this came to be written. I entered a writing competition. Me? Those of you who know me will be surprised. I’... http://www.a1articles.com/article_527082_17.html 01st May 2008 When they do not suffer from the disease or disorder, people can be very selfish, not to say, callous. The same problems swirl around the politics of "Libertarianism" in the USA, where some activities such as drug and substance abuse are considered "victi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_527079_17.html 01st May 2008 Dave was bad-tempered because he took time off work to go see the physician at the hospital. Even though Mike slipped him a few dollars to make up the lost pay, Dave said it was all bullshit. I was perfectly able to give consent to take this Ambien. He th... http://www.a1articles.com/article_526953_17.html 01st May 2008 This April has been good news month in Philadelphia. According to a report published in Pediatrics, a research project to tackle obesity among children has been a success. Ten elementary schools were chosen, five instituted the weight loss program (althou... http://www.a1articles.com/article_526933_23.html 01st May 2008 Perhaps I am growing more cynical, but every time I see a new piece of research only lasting one or two years, I wonder why it stopped early. I suppose it is always a balancing act. If you have a specific hypothesis, evidence for or against should be appa... http://www.a1articles.com/article_526930_17.html 01st May 2008 Looking along my bookshelf, my eye was caught by a title, Triumph Over Fear: A Book of Help and Hope for People with Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Phobias by Jerilyn Ross — originally published by Bantam Books in 1994. When I picked it up again, I was surp... http://www.a1articles.com/article_526926_17.html 01st May 2008 There is one simple explanation for those extra pounds of weight. Too much food! The way the body works is very simple. If you get just enough calories for basic things like breathing, you have to burn fat to get the energy to walk around. Eat more calori... http://www.a1articles.com/article_526923_17.html 01st May 2008 I’ve been sitting here in the corner of the living room we call the study all day. I remember my mother taking forever to type out something on our old machine. She used to call it, her hunt-and-peck st<a href="http://www.sweetdreamsadvice.com/doctor.ht... http://www.a1articles.com/article_525538_17.html 29th April 2008 So there I am hiding myself away in this nursing home while whoever the manufacturer is decides to get his act together and get this Acomplia on the market. It’s frustrating. Here I am — been close to death twice now — and I need this Acomplia to pu... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524999_23.html 28th April 2008 This district nurse — Molly’s her name (some Irish connection in her family, apparently) — has the right end of the stick on all this. She thinks I’m still living in a dream world, not connecting to the real world at all. All I’ve been thinking ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524991_23.html 28th April 2008 As part of my post-Acomplia therapy, I rang the foreman down at the factory. He said they were keeping my old job for me. In fact, truth be told, he said they were missing me. The younger kids couldn’t hack it at all when it came to the kind of work I c... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524982_23.html 28th April 2008 Mike had me sitting in his car outside the mall. We’d finished the burgers and now he’s apologising to me. Says the physician down at the hospital has been against this from the out. If I’m to get the best out of Ambien, I’ve to be in on the act. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524977_17.html 28th April 2008 We have some good news about Zoloft and two sad truths about medical treatment in general. The first sad truth affects all medications including Zoloft. Whether they be prescription or over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, health and herbal supplements, or... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524966_17.html 28th April 2008 It is always fascinating to watch how the media pick up on a story from the world of medical research. No matter how well balanced and scientifically neutral the source material may be, it seems that news must always be more sensational. Only bad news is ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524939_17.html 28th April 2008 Today, I am going to deal with three pieces of back-to-back news about the weight loss market in general and Acomplia in particular. Decision Resources is one of the world's leading research firms on health care and pharmaceutical issues. In a recent r... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524934_23.html 28th April 2008 It is fascinating to browse around the internet. There is always somebody thinking something interesting somewhere in the world. All you have to do is to find him or her. Take just one story from California as an example. It raises the difficult question ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524929_17.html 28th April 2008 Medications for depression treatment were proven not significantly harmful during pregnancy. However you ask the question, you always get the same answer. More antidepressants than any other medication have been prescribed to Americans over the last tw... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524917_17.html 28th April 2008 History is a strange beast. You can only see it when you turn and look back. The closer it is to you, the less easy it is to see. The difficulty with writing about acomplia is that you must always start somewhere. Wherever you pick in time, the real quest... http://www.a1articles.com/article_524765_23.html 28th April 2008 In November, 2007 the British Medical Journal published a new piece of meta-research into the relative effectiveness of Orlistat, Meridia and Acomplia. The difficulty with conventional research is that each individual study usually only involves a few hun... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523991_23.html 28th April 2008 Now here is a question for you. When you reach for a tablet of Ambien, do you have performance anxiety — in the nicest possible sense of the words, of course? It seems that a number of people are finding it difficult to swallow their Ambiens (and others... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523989_17.html 28th April 2008 Sometimes we become so obsessed by the fact of celebrity that we forget to look beyond the immediate headlines to see the sad reality beyond. Such is the case of the family of Anna Nicole Smith. Having lived a life of some notoriety, she died in her hotel... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523985_17.html 28th April 2008 The bad news on obesity in the United States continues to roll in with about one third of adult Americans now considered obese. Against this continuous drip feed of research data showing the scale of the emerging medical crisis, it is all the more strange... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523980_23.html 28th April 2008 Well, yes, I am going to talk about a new book. Appropriately enough for a site devoted to Ambien, it is Insomniac by Gayle Greene (published by the University of California Press in March, 2008 — 978-0-520-24630-0). So here is an autobiographical take ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523954_17.html 27th April 2008 Science is one of those endlessly fascinating games that people play with ideas. The method could not be easier to state. You propose a hypothesis and design an experiment to collect evidence to test whether your hypothesis is true (I always pay particula... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523950_23.html 27th April 2008