http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com One of the stereotypes of an alcoholic is that of an overweight individual. There are two main reasons for this The first is that people who spend a lot of their time drinking tend not to be physically active. They sit comfortably at home on a couch with... http://www.articlealley.com/article_561025_23.html 23rd June 2008 Ask anyone with back pain and they are likely to tell you a story about what they were doing when they were "injured". It is often something trivial. I twisted awkwardly as I was getting out of the car or as I was lifting the bag of groceries out of the t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_546994_17.html 25th May 2008 Getting a good night's sleep is so easy for the majority but, when something goes wrong with this natural reaction to physical tiredness, the way you feel the next day can be serious. It can be simply that you feel excessively tired. You walk around in a ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_543310_17.html 21st May 2008 Whatever you read about acomplia and weight loss, there is one constant. Acomplia on its own cannot reduce your weight. It is designed to work alongside a low-calorie diet and physical exercise. So what kind of activity should people adopt? The idea of... http://www.articlealley.com/article_543255_23.html 21st May 2008 There has been a wealth of research into what causes pain. It is a symptom or warning of an underlying medical problem. Researchers can describe in detail how the sensation is transmitted from its source to the brain so we become aware of the problem and ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_540295_17.html 20th May 2008 Ultram is marketed in some seventy countries around the world for the treatment of moderate to severe pain in multiple dose format. The simple rule is that the dose should be individualised so that each person takes the smallest dose required to produce t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_535271_17.html 11th May 2008 I am always impressed by a well-rounded acronym. It shows the research team is delighted by both science and language. In this case, we have the cumbersome An International Study of Rimonabant in Dyslipidemia with Atherogenic Risk in Abdominally Obese Pat... http://www.articlealley.com/article_535256_23.html 11th May 2008 In 2006 in the US, the clinical gold standard for insomnia was controlled-release Ambien. Millions of prescriptions a year were and are written. Moving across the Atlantic, the situation is no less “impressive”. According to the latest figures, there ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_534636_17.html 11th May 2008 Disability is all in the eye of the beholder. If someone has lost a limb or has some equally visible sign of a physical problem, the reaction is usually sympathetic. But take away the more obvious visual clues, and how the general public will react become... http://www.articlealley.com/article_534322_17.html 09th May 2008 This is a word of introduction and explanation. “They” thought it should start this way so that you’d all understand how and why all this came to be written. I entered a writing competition. Me? Those of you who know me will be surprised. I’... http://www.articlealley.com/article_527082_17.html 01st May 2008 When they do not suffer from the disease or disorder, people can be very selfish, not to say, callous. The same problems swirl around the politics of "Libertarianism" in the USA, where some activities such as drug and substance abuse are considered "victi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_527079_17.html 01st May 2008 Dave was bad-tempered because he took time off work to go see the physician at the hospital. Even though Mike slipped him a few dollars to make up the lost pay, Dave said it was all bullshit. I was perfectly able to give consent to take this Ambien. He th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526953_17.html 01st May 2008 This April has been good news month in Philadelphia. According to a report published in Pediatrics, a research project to tackle obesity among children has been a success. Ten elementary schools were chosen, five instituted the weight loss program (althou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526933_23.html 01st May 2008 Perhaps I am growing more cynical, but every time I see a new piece of research only lasting one or two years, I wonder why it stopped early. I suppose it is always a balancing act. If you have a specific hypothesis, evidence for or against should be appa... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526930_17.html 01st May 2008 Looking along my bookshelf, my eye was caught by a title, Triumph Over Fear: A Book of Help and Hope for People with Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Phobias by Jerilyn Ross — originally published by Bantam Books in 1994. When I picked it up again, I was surp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526926_17.html 01st May 2008 There is one simple explanation for those extra pounds of weight. Too much food! The way the body works is very simple. If you get just enough calories for basic things like breathing, you have to burn fat to get the energy to walk around. Eat more calori... http://www.articlealley.com/article_526923_17.html 01st May 2008 I’ve been sitting here in the corner of the living room we call the study all day. I remember my mother taking forever to type out something on our old machine. She used to call it, her hunt-and-peck st<a href="http://www.sweetdreamsadvice.com/doctor.ht... http://www.articlealley.com/article_525538_17.html 29th April 2008 So there I am hiding myself away in this nursing home while whoever the manufacturer is decides to get his act together and get this Acomplia on the market. It’s frustrating. Here I am — been close to death twice now — and I need this Acomplia to pu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524999_23.html 28th April 2008 This district nurse — Molly’s her name (some Irish connection in her family, apparently) — has the right end of the stick on all this. She thinks I’m still living in a dream world, not connecting to the real world at all. All I’ve been thinking ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524991_23.html 28th April 2008 As part of my post-Acomplia therapy, I rang the foreman down at the factory. He said they were keeping my old job for me. In fact, truth be told, he said they were missing me. The younger kids couldn’t hack it at all when it came to the kind of work I c... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524982_23.html 28th April 2008 Mike had me sitting in his car outside the mall. We’d finished the burgers and now he’s apologising to me. Says the physician down at the hospital has been against this from the out. If I’m to get the best out of Ambien, I’ve to be in on the act. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524977_17.html 28th April 2008 We have some good news about Zoloft and two sad truths about medical treatment in general. The first sad truth affects all medications including Zoloft. Whether they be prescription or over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, health and herbal supplements, or... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524966_17.html 28th April 2008 It is always fascinating to watch how the media pick up on a story from the world of medical research. No matter how well balanced and scientifically neutral the source material may be, it seems that news must always be more sensational. Only bad news is ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524939_17.html 28th April 2008 Today, I am going to deal with three pieces of back-to-back news about the weight loss market in general and Acomplia in particular. Decision Resources is one of the world's leading research firms on health care and pharmaceutical issues. In a recent r... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524934_23.html 28th April 2008 It is fascinating to browse around the internet. There is always somebody thinking something interesting somewhere in the world. All you have to do is to find him or her. Take just one story from California as an example. It raises the difficult question ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524929_17.html 28th April 2008 Medications for depression treatment were proven not significantly harmful during pregnancy. However you ask the question, you always get the same answer. More antidepressants than any other medication have been prescribed to Americans over the last tw... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524917_17.html 28th April 2008 History is a strange beast. You can only see it when you turn and look back. The closer it is to you, the less easy it is to see. The difficulty with writing about acomplia is that you must always start somewhere. Wherever you pick in time, the real quest... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524765_23.html 28th April 2008 In November, 2007 the British Medical Journal published a new piece of meta-research into the relative effectiveness of Orlistat, Meridia and Acomplia. The difficulty with conventional research is that each individual study usually only involves a few hun... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523991_23.html 28th April 2008 Now here is a question for you. When you reach for a tablet of Ambien, do you have performance anxiety — in the nicest possible sense of the words, of course? It seems that a number of people are finding it difficult to swallow their Ambiens (and others... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523989_17.html 28th April 2008 Sometimes we become so obsessed by the fact of celebrity that we forget to look beyond the immediate headlines to see the sad reality beyond. Such is the case of the family of Anna Nicole Smith. Having lived a life of some notoriety, she died in her hotel... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523985_17.html 28th April 2008 The bad news on obesity in the United States continues to roll in with about one third of adult Americans now considered obese. Against this continuous drip feed of research data showing the scale of the emerging medical crisis, it is all the more strange... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523980_23.html 28th April 2008 Well, yes, I am going to talk about a new book. Appropriately enough for a site devoted to Ambien, it is Insomniac by Gayle Greene (published by the University of California Press in March, 2008 — 978-0-520-24630-0). So here is an autobiographical take ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523954_17.html 27th April 2008 Science is one of those endlessly fascinating games that people play with ideas. The method could not be easier to state. You propose a hypothesis and design an experiment to collect evidence to test whether your hypothesis is true (I always pay particula... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523950_23.html 27th April 2008 Did you see the news last December that Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer’s. He is only 59. When I was younger, we used to congratulate anyone who approached their sixtieth birthday without dying. Now, with the improvements in diet and medical science, we a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523920_17.html 27th April 2008 At the meeting of the American College of Cardiology held in Chicago this March, Merck & Co released some clinical data from the Phase III trials for their proposed competitor to acomplia (rimonabant). This new medication, still going by its generic name ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523161_23.html 25th April 2008 Talk to any sports team manager and you hear the same answer. Once you are at the top, everyone else is gunning for you. They want the satisfaction of beating you, to prove they are better than you. You have to play your best all the time. One slip-up and... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523156_17.html 25th April 2008 Law is one of those funny things that seems to rumble along in the background to most people’s lives without them ever really thinking too much about it. Until they need it, that is. Then you find it has crept up behind you and is shouting, “Boo!” �... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523125_17.html 25th April 2008 The pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis, has always promoted acomplia as achieving the best results when combined with a low-calorie diet and exercise. There is a simple explanation for this. People who are sufficiently motivated will lose weight if th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523088_23.html 25th April 2008 Legal systems are not all about the top court. There can be many layers underneath where cases and principles in dispute bubble up as the injured seek justice. One of the most contentious of the current issues in the United States is the idea of pre-empti... http://www.articlealley.com/article_522968_17.html 25th April 2008 In both medical and legal circles, there is a constant question. How do you warn the general population of the possible dangers of taking medications. Recently, this question has become more pointed. Pressure groups now actively campaign to persuade regul... http://www.articlealley.com/article_522912_17.html 25th April 2008 Three letters can be deceptively simple. DUI = driving under the influence [of] alcohol or some other substance that prevents you driving safely. In the USA, ambien is the best-selling sleeping pill. So should it be DUIA “driving under the influence of ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_520667_17.html 18th April 2008 Every life lost is a sad loss. If we know the person, the death can be a load that some cannot carry without the help of something like Xanax. Then comes Heath Ledger — a man who lived his life in the public eye. It was like we all knew him — so alive... http://www.articlealley.com/article_509197_17.html 04th April 2008 On the 26th March, Sanofi-Aventis, the third largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, announced that the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had approved Acomplia for use in the National Health Service (NHS). NICE... http://www.articlealley.com/article_509162_23.html 04th April 2008 However you ask the question, you always get the same answer. More antidepressants than any other medication have been prescribed to Americans over the last twenty years. This is a remarkable statistic when you think of all the possible illnesses and dise... http://www.articlealley.com/article_507158_17.html 03rd April 2008 Xanax is now one of the most trusted of medications for the relief of anxiety. But, to many unsympathetic individuals, anxiety disorders are not real illnesses. You can always hear the complaints. These people are faking it to avoid working for a living. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505065_17.html 02nd April 2008 The girls rabbiting on about love handles didn’t hurt my pride — what’s left to hurt when you’ve been prodded and poked in a hospital — but made me take a proper look at myself. Now I’m less hooked on the idea of Acomplia, I can look in the mi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_504077_23.html 02nd April 2008 Every life lost is a sad loss. If we know the person, the death can be a load that some cannot carry without the help of something like Xanax. Then comes Heath Ledger — a man who lived his life in the public eye. It was like we all knew him — so alive... http://www.articlealley.com/article_502807_17.html 01st April 2008 OA is the most common form of arthritis. It can affect the spine and the hips as well as the limbs including the hands, elbows, shoulders, knees, ankles and feet. It is an inflammation of the joints which causes damage to the cartilage and resulting muscl... http://www.articlealley.com/article_462334_17.html 25th January 2008 Tramadol is intended for use by adults (those 17 years of age and older). Patients with moderate to moderately severe chronic pain who do not require immediate relief should start with a low dose of Tramadol and increase the dose until the lowest effec... http://www.articlealley.com/article_462333_17.html 25th January 2008 I know how hard it is to lose weight. Like many people, I was there once. The most difficult thing is getting started, so if you are reading this and have already decided to take that first step and go for it, then congratulations, you've made the most im... http://www.articlealley.com/article_223215_23.html 05th October 2007