NBC news recently published the article, College Teaches Anxious Students Not to See Failure as ‘Catastrophic’ about how an increasing number of students at East Carolina University (ECU) are having difficulty coping with university life. So many ECU students are experiencing crippling anxiety, fear, and suicidal tendencies that, “the college has boosted its counseling staff […]
So, let me get this straight….For people who are not pregnant, Zika is about as consequential as the common cold. Per the CDC, “Zika is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika.”The only people who […]
In the past year I have had two strange, but fairly minor in the grand scheme of things, health issues. When I was going through them, I tried to find information about both conditions online but wasn’t able to find much information or advice about what to do to cure them. Because there seems to […]
In CALL 6: Mother blames antibiotic for son’s death – Purdue University student took Levaquin, a news piece aired on WRTV 6 out of Indianapolis, Heather McCarthy tells the story of the tragic death of her son, Shea McCarthy, who lost his life after experiencing severe psychiatric adverse effects of Levaquin, a fluoroquinolone antibiotic.Heather McCarthy notes […]
Amid the long and growing list of side effects associated with the fluoroquinolone antibiotics (Cipro/ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/levofloxacin, Avelox/moxifloxacin, Floxin/ofloxacin and a few others), dental problems seem increasingly prevalent but least understood. On the patient boards, dedicated to understanding the adverse reactions of these antibiotics, patients routinely report serious dental problems after taking fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Susan, pictured above, […]