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Yet another drug that is over-used and . . .

Posted on November 13, 2019November 9, 2019

You can finish this sentence without my help, I’m sure: May cause way more problems than it solves. The drug in this case is baclofen, a muscle-relaxant commonly (way too commonly?) prescribed for , well, muscle relaxation from conditions such as back pain. Well, guess who gets most back pain? Seniors, of course, so no […]

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Watch Out: If you need aggressive high blood pressure treatment

Posted on July 24, 2017

The mantra these days seems to be that if you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure, as so many of you have, the lower you can  get your blood pressure, the better, which often demands the use of several medications since one alone is seldom effective. Based on a very much-hyped study called the SPRINT […]

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