Summary: Beware! Generic drug prices vary widely from different pharmacies; "The Conversion Project" encourages talk about one's desires when dying — prepare your wishes way ahead of time; Drug related rashes and the problem of doing placebo studies with rashes and other conditions; The physiology of back pain and how medicines intervene; Exercise and other means to lower blood pressure — new guidelines discussed; Expectations for drug treatment of stage 4 prostate cancer; The cause of recurrent bronchitis and proper use of antibiotics with respiratory infections; Overuse of specialists in end-of-life hospital stays — you can demand to go home to die; Try magnesium instead of quinine for muscle cramps and why some old drugs like quinine are not available; Review of using probiotics to counter digestive side effects of Clindamycin given for a root canal
