by lsmith | Aug 21, 2013 | General
Clostridium difficile infection is linked to 14,000 deaths each year in the United States and continues to increase each year.1 Antibiotic use is the major cause of C. diff infection, but other medications are known to increase risk, including proton-pump inhibitors...
by Brenda Watson | Aug 16, 2013 | General
A recent report by the Mayo Clinic states that almost 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug. Seventy percent. That number is astounding to me. The number-one most common prescription drug is antibiotics. The over-prescription of antibiotics is...
by Brenda Watson | Apr 22, 2010 | General
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know about irritable bowel syndrome—once upon time doctors thought IBS wasn’t even real. I mean it! They thought it was just an imaginary health condition made up by middle-class housewives with too much time on their hands, can you...
