drugs - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Sat, 14 Jan 2017 02:14:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png drugs - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 The Genetics of a Silent Killer and the Quest for a Cure https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-genetics-of-a-silent-killer-and-the-quest-for-a-cure/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40425 By Deepak Chopra, MD FACP and Mark L. Zeidel, M.D Some diseases make headlines, pull at our heart strings, and inspire high-visibility fundraising events. Others, like kidney disease, wreak havoc more quietly. Chronic kidney disease afflicts more than 26 million people in the U.S., putting them at high risk for other serious illnesses, like heart […]

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]]> A Better Way to Approach Pain, and America's Pain-Pill Epidemic https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-better-way-to-approach-pain-and-americas-pain-pill-epidemic/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:53:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39022 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina You may have noticed headlines about the rise of prescription drugs as a major cause of addiction and death by overdose. Pain pills are overshadowed by illegal drugs like heroin and their dangers masked by a certain air […]

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