Drug allergy: Watching for unexpected reactions to medications
Posted on January 21, 2008 in Allergy, Health by ReallyDrugs.com AddThis Social Bookmark Button (2) »

A drug allergy is a faulty immune system reaction to a drug. It’s typically the same process that occurs when people have allergic reactions to pollen, insect venom, animal dander or peanuts. Like many other allergies, a drug allergy can cause a range of responses from a mild rash to life-threatening effects on many body systems. (more…)

Drugs may boost your brain power
Posted on January 17, 2008 in Health by ReallyDrugs.com AddThis Social Bookmark Button (0) »
clipped from www.latimes.com

Drugs to build up that mental muscle

Academics, musicians, even poker champs use pills to sharpen their minds, legally. Labs race to develop even more.

Pills

The medicine cabinet of so-called cognitive enhancers also includes Ritalin, commonly given to schoolchildren for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and beta blockers, such as the heart drug Inderal. Researchers have been investigating the drug Aricept, which is normally used to slow the decline of Alzheimer’s patients.

The drugs haven’t been tested extensively in healthy people, but their physiological effects in the brain are well understood.

They are all just precursors to the blockbuster drug that labs are racing to develop.

“Whatever company comes out with the first memory pill is going to put Viagra to shame,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe.

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