Just because a drug recall is happening, it doesn't mean you must throw your medication away.

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) has stumped medical professionals who want to help their patients live better lives. But, one new treatment may finally be effective.

When you’re in extreme pain, you’ll do anything to make it stop. A doctor tells you that one pill can temporarily put an end to your pain, and it seems like a no-brainer. 

Prescription painkillers seem harmless enough. After all, most of us have taken them at one point or another. 

However, there are some dangers that come with taking prescription painkillers with addiction being at the top of the list.

Many painkillers fall into the opioid category, which means they are narcotics.

How does advertising influence your prescription drug choices? Does it also impact your physician's recommendations?

While medication can be life-saving, are we too dependent on drugs?

Conditions like anxiety, pain and insomnia can all lead to prescription drug addiction... even in the most "normal" of individuals.

When Steve Simpson’s mother was in a serious car accident in 2002, he had no idea it would be the spark that ignited his heroin addiction.

If you have allergies to certain ingredients or preservatives in your medication, pharmacy compounding may be right for you.

Medical marijuana is shown to have painkilling properties without the harmful side effects of typical prescription pain killers.

If taking medications, what are some tips for lowering the risk of side effects?

If you're concerned about a medication, don't hesitate to reach out to your doctor.

What should you do if you miss a dose or you're traveling across several time zones?

Why are some prescriptions specific, such as "take this medication every six or eight hours," but others are more general, such as "take this medicine three or four times a day"?

If you have one of these medications, is there anything you can do?

The key isn't necessarily to live longer, but to live healthier.

Many people take both Rx meds and supplements in hopes of improving health, but the potential interactions may make things worse.

You take a drug to feel better; but the ingredients in certain prescription drugs can have terribly negative health effects.

A growing concern on college campuses is that students are "sharing" their ADHD drugs with others.

Less than half of medications include specific labeling for kids, which means pediatricians must decide what is appropriate based on their judgment.

Hundreds of thousands of kids are prescribed codeine each year, but is that really necessary? What might be at risk?

This Spring, learn how to de-stress your life with easy tips to de-clutter and organize your home and mind.

If you're taking certain OTC or prescription medications, you may be depleting key nutrients needed for optimal health.

The FDA made a surprising announcement to cut the recommended dose of the most popular sleep drug in the country, Ambien, in half for women. 

This has been a particularly rough season for cold and flu. Dr. Pescatore helps provide natural solutions to beating the flu.

Medicine is supposed to help you, right? Unfortunately, it could be robbing you of your health.

A powerful anticancer drug, dichloroacetate, induces cancer cell death. The problem? It's too cheap for Big Pharma.

If you're on a statin medication but not taking CoQ10, you may be putting your health in severe danger.

How can YOU help stop the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse?

More and more women are dying from overdose due to prescription painkillers. Could you be at risk?

Insomnia turning into a nightly routine? Scientists believe that a new drug, DORA-22, could be the answer to your sleepless nights.

Three nutrients are proven safe and effective for lowering blood pressure – in some cases even better than prescription drugs.

Almost everything that people think they know about statins is wrong. Join us as we bust the myths.

Emergency departments are seeing a rise in cases involving misuse of sleeping pills. Could someone you love be at risk?

What if there was one prescription that could prevent and treat dozens of diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity?

Millions of Americans use prescription pain pills without developing into addiction. What determines who becomes addicted?

Adderall is used to help people academically, but many simply use the stimulant for the euphoric feelings it produces.

I was sitting around a table with three "lipidologists" (cardiologists who have been declared cholesterol gurus through certification), an invasive cardiologist (stent and cath person), and little old me, the Naturopathic Cardiologist.

There was an intense conversation going on about lipid particles and atherogenicity, specifically about which ones tend to cause heart disease more than others. I chuckled under my breath (to the ire of my colleagues) and said openly that "it is not the particle that's the problem; it's the oxidation of that particle."

In other words, LDL is safe, all of it, unless it becomes oxidized, and when it does, it not only can cause heart disease but probably cancer as well.

Imagine having rancid oil running through your veins all day, that's what causes the problem.

There was a pause, and than one of my lipidologists colleagues said, "That does not fit into this discussion." I answered sternly that you are arguing over which particles do what, but you are not discussing how to stop the disease. He answered, "That is a discussion for a different day." I chimed in, "When are we going to discuss how to stop the disease?"  I received blank looks and the conversation continued.

Here is the problem...

Grapefruit and other citrus juices contain an enyzyme that boosts the amount of drug that we would normally expect the blood stream. The concern is unintentional overdoing.