Jardiance: Treating Diabetes Differently

Most of the people needing diabetes medications are living with type 2 diabetes – in fact, there are about 27 million people with type 2 in the US who have been diagnosed as needing diabetes care. So what causes diabetes? Genes play a big role in how our body makes insulin as does being overweight. […]

Diabetes? Check Out this New Drug

Synjardy is a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes. It combines two proven complementary diabetes medications, empagliflozin (Jardiance) and metformin, that are, on their own, ways of managing diabetes and, in combination, represent an improved form of diabetes care. Empagliflozin (Jadiance) is an SGLT2 inhibitor, a relatively new category of treatment for type 2 diabetes […]

Drug overdose in seniors

In the US, people over 60 years old constitute 30% of all prescription drug takers. This is despite the fact that they only make up 15% of the US population. That’s a lot of medication. The lack of awareness about overdose and side effects contributes to some staggering statistics on drug overdose in seniors, on […]

To Take Antidepressants or Not?

Let me tell you a bit about myself. I am 37 years old, married and have 3 young kids with another on the way. I’ll tell you another thing about myself, I take Lexapro, and it’s an antidepressant….. Even though I am not depressed…. And I can manage without it. Do you think I’m crazy? […]

The Caffeine Drug

Coffee is the natural picker upper. It is the one thing that gets some us through the day, or at least out of bed. Coffee today is so common and seems so harmless that we forget that it is actually a psychoactive drug. What that means is that the caffeine drug is classified in the […]