If youâre using B vitamins to help prevent hot flashes, be sure to use the form of niacin called niacinamide. Other forms of niacin dilate the blood vessels, which can cause flushing and worsen hot flashes, rather than relieve them. Folic acid helps the body manufacture and use estrogen.
And the title of âMost Expensive Drug in the Entire Worldâ goes to Glybera, a drug so far not approved in the U.S. but recently approved in the European Union. Glybera is a gene therapy used to treat a condition called familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency, a disease affecting only about one in 1 million people.
April 20, 2011 -- The 10 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. aren't the drugs on which we spend the most, according to a report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.The institute is the public face of IMS, a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm.he 10 drugs on which we spent the most were: 1  Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug -- $7.2 billion. 2  Nexium, an antacid drug -- $6.3 billion. 3  Plavix, a blood thinner -- $6.1 billion. 4  Advair Diskus, an asthma inhaler -- $4.7 billion. 5  Abilify, an antipsychotic drug -- $4.6 billion.