These are rarely prescribed alone to lower cholesterol, but work well when prescribed together with statins. 3. Nicotinic acid such as Niaspan, Nicolar lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides and raises HDL cholesterol. 4. Fibrates such as Lopid, Atromid, and Tricor are used to lower triglycerides, and can help raise HDL cholesterol.
80 mg Each round, unscored, green, biconvex, controlled release tablet, imprinted with CDN on one side and the mg strength on the other, contains oxycodone HCl 80 mg. Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication.
Many women feel insecure, self conscious, and unappreciated because they don’t look like the woman portrayed in the media. Secondly, this image being portrayed by media can resort to unhealthy treatments to lose weight. Woman have tried to stop eating or throwing up their food to stop them from gaining weight, which has only led them to becoming ill. Other women use diet pills and meal supplements to lose weight, however, when they stop taking them, a majority of the time they go back to their previous life style and gain a majority of that weight back. A lot of women exercise to lose weight, but if they have really low self-esteem, they try to push themselves, leaving themselves exhausted and dehydrated; still seeing no results. Women try unhealthy diets, excessive exercising and sometimes anorexia to look a certain way, but in the end, they just end up unhealthy and unsatisfied.
However, Clozapine is not 100% effective, suggesting that DA is not the only cause of SZ. Also, Clozapine treats both the positive and negative symptoms of SZ, with only the positive symptoms seeming to be related to excess DA levels, again suggesting DA is not the only cause of SZ. Seaman (1987) reviewed a number of studies involving post-mortems of SZ patients. He found that overall, SZ patients have an increase in DA receptor density of between 60% and 110% when compared to controls. However, it is not clear whether or not it was the excess DA which caused the patients to develop SZ, or whether it was having SZ that caused the excess DA.
While many people believe that marijuana may not be as harmful as these other drugs, it can still affect the infant in a few ways. The baby can have physical problems; for example low birth weight and/or a small head. Developmentally, the child may experience difficulty with memory or attention, depression, and/or inadequate problem-solving skills (Berk, 2008, p. 67). Tobacco and alcohol are two of the most common and harmful teratogens which affect an unborn baby’s growth. Extensive alcohol consumption during pregnancy can lead to a very detrimental and potentially fatal disorder known as fetal alcohol syndrome.
Chris Clavell Writing Studies Geoff Bender Thefreedictionary.com defines prescription drugs as a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist (“Prescription”). Prescription drugs are usually stronger than over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and have a better chance of curing certain conditions than OTCs. The instructions given by doctors are to be followed strictly or side-effects may occur. But what happens when patients only seek the help of drugs for the narcotic side-effects? The addiction for “prescription” drugs is as strong as classic street drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
About 11,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3600 will die. (Atkinson) Cervical Cancer is cancer of the cervix, the lower narrow part of the uterus. The uterus is hollow, pear-shaped organ where a baby grows during a women’s pregnancy. (Facts) Morton 2 Merck began marketing Gardasil in 2006 after the Food and Drug Administration approved it for females ages 9 to 26. The vaccine is the first of its kind to build immunity against two strains of HPV, which lead to 70% of cervical cancer cases in the United States.
Birth rates data for ethnic groups showed a decrease across the boards according to the National Center for Health Statistics (“The national campaign,” 2011). On a personal level, my awareness of this population did not go farther than to notice when a teenage girl was pregnant. I admit to bias thinking that the girl must be promiscuous and not have any moral grounding. Frankly, I blamed the girl’s mother for not instilling better values in her daughter and often times thought no better of the mother. I did not notice one ethnic group more than
Cervical cancer kills 4,000 women each year in the U.S. 90% of the cases of cervical cancer are attributable to the HPV virus. Why should we say no to a vaccine that can protect our children from a deadly disease? All girls between the ages of 9 to 14 years of age should be given the HPV vaccine. There are two (2) HPV vaccines, namely Gardasil and Cervarix. These vaccines prevent four (4) different types of HPV which together cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts.
Lowering the drinking age Underage drinking has become an epidemic in today’s society among the young generation. Statistics shown more than half of adolescence between the ages of twelve and twenty have at least consumed or encountered alcohol at least twice. Alcohol is the drug of choice to some adolescents. As a result of the adolescent consuming alcohol binge drinking can occur. Frequent adolescents binge drinkers are more likely to engaged in dangerous behaviors such as, partaking other drugs such as, marijuana and cocaine, having multiplies sex partners and earning d’s and f’s for academic grades.