People’s Pharmacy: How much melatonin do you absorb from pills?

Q. You wrote recently about the dangers of takingmelatonin for insomnia, especially in large doses.In the study you cited, more people taking this pill had heart failure.

People’s Pharmacy: Some statins react with grapefruit. This patient found pomegranate juice to also be a problem

A. Gastroparesis means stomach paralysis. The drug semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy) can cause delayed stomach emptying ...
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Over 140,000 bottles of cholesterol medication recalled. See affected products.

Over 140,000 bottles of a prescription statin have been recalled due to "failed dissolution specifications," according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement report. Ascend ...
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Massive recall of cholesterol medication underway. How to check your prescriptions.

Do you take the medication Lipitor to help with high cholesterol? If so, you should know that there has been a massive recall on a generic version of the drug. Over 140,000 bottles of a prescription ...

All about 'Heated Rivalry,' HBO Max's explicit gay hockey romance

What's the deal with "Heated Rivalry"? The HBO Max romance about two pro hockey players in lust and in love is steaming up TV ...
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There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”

O nce upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging “bad” ...