Visiting your doctor is an essential step to getting the right medical treatment. Apart from knowing your body’s condition, doctors will provide a quality generic medicine produced by legitimate drug manufacturers. It’s not advisable to order a medicine based on knowledge from non-doctors. The doctor will always ensure that the generic option effectively remedies your medical condition. Although legally all generic products must use the same active ingredients as their brand-name counterpart, some manufacturers use unsafe or counterfeit components. Counterfeit components can endanger your...

Patients suffering from obesity are usually prescribed diet pills. Diet pills or anti-obesity medication manages or controls the body’s weight. Weight loss pills work by suppressing the appetite or increasing the body’s metabolism. Apart from the medicine prescription, doctors also recommend regular exercise and a healthy diet. (Photo by laurasmoncur) The most popular diet pill is orlistat (brand name: Xenical). Orlistat works by blocking the pancreatic lipase. Pancreatic lipase is responsible for fat absorption. By inhibiting this lipase, there is less fat absorbed by the...

Antibiotics are taken to remedy bacteria-caused diseases. Bacterial infections are different from viruses. Therefore, people with the common cold or the flu shouldn’t be taking antibiotics. Antibiotics only fight bacterial diseases. Since antibiotics have a very strong effect, they must only be taken according to a doctor’s prescription. A doctor’s prescription will include how long the antibiotic will be taken. The bacteria will only be completely eliminated if the prescribed schedule is followed. If you only take partial doses or stop taking them earlier than expected, the bacteria...