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8 Meds Docs Won't Take

If trained professionals won't use them, why would you?

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 23, 2008 7:55 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Some drugs have such serious drawbacks that even doctors won’t take them, Men’s Health reports. The big eight:

  • Advair: Can actually increase the severity of asthma attacks
  • Avandia: Diabetes drug carries risk of heart attack

  • Celebrex: Related painkillers have already been pulled
  • Ketek: Antibiotic is more dangerous to the liver
  • Prilosec and Nexium: Heartburn is bad, but heart attacks are worse
  • Visine: Overuse can lead to more redness
  • Pseudoephedrine: Closely linked to meth

A pharmacy.
A pharmacy.   (AP Photo)
A pharmacy's stock.
A pharmacy's stock.   (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
Pharmacist Don Perdue.
Pharmacist Don Perdue.   (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)
A man and his prescriptions.
A man and his prescriptions.   (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, file)
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Perhaps another drug you shouldn't take
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drugs • Avandia • prescription drugs • doctor • medical treatment • methamphetamine • over-the-counter drugs • opinion • Visine • Advair • pseudoephedrine • Celebrex • Ketek • Prilosec • Nexium

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