Edgar Cayce Cough Cure

I found this awesome cough cure in one of my mother’s old Edgar Cayce books. For those who do not know, Edgar Cayce was a famous psychic who, while in a trance, could make various predictions and diagnose different illnesses in people. Being a sick kid (and from a family of smokers), I was prone…

Intravenous Drug Used As Sleep Aid Medication For Insomnia

With so many news reports about Michael Jackson’s death, what have we learned? Did Michael Jackson take a more powerful sleep aid medication? Reports that he suffered from insomnia, Jackson’s apparent drug of choice was administered intravenously as a general anesthetic used to sedate patients for surgery in a medical facility or hospital. It’s purpose…

Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA)

ANDA is for a generic duplicate of an approved NDA product. Abbreviated New Drug Application contains data that, when submitted to FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Generic Drugs, provides for the review and ultimate approval of a generic drug product: •Gets safety and efficacy studies from NDA •Must have identical active…

The History of Surgical Technology

Surgical technologists are not as well known as other healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses, yet they play the all important role of assisting surgeons during surgical procedures. Surgical technology is a recent profession that resulted from the need for trained medical personnel after the succession of wars that plagued the world in the…