Twenty-four-year-old Aimee Copeland continues to make headlines for her battle with a rare, deadly flesh-eating bacteria infection called necrotizing fasciitis, which occurred as a result of a zip lining accident. Her leg has been amputated and her hands are likely to be claimed next, but the traumatic physical losses aren't the only issue Copeland is facing. She reportedly cannot remember the string of events leading up to her hospital stay.

Copeland's awake and alert, but according to her father Andy Copeland's blog, "They are giving her medication to help her forget the stress she's under, so that explains her inability to recollect many things." As if this story could get even more horrifying! Now we have to add drug-induced amnesia to the mix?

Oh, brother. Whitney Houston's troublemaker ex-husband, Bobby Brown, sat down for an interview with Today's Matt Lauer, which will air tomorrow. Brown wanted to proclaim to the world how he is not the one who got Whitney Houston hooked on drugs. According to Brown, Whitney was hitting the hard stuff loooong before he came into the picture. So he'd kindly ask the world to stop hating on him. "I'm not the reason she's gone," says Bobby.

Could he have a good point?

For years, we've heard that hormonal drugs (like in birth control pills and menopause treatments, like conjugated estrogens) can be hazardous to women's health and spike breast cancer risk. But now, a study done by researchers at the Breast Cancer Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston shows that post-menopausal women who took estrogen alone -- thought to be safe and possibly even slightly beneficial in terms of cancer risk -- might have a problem if they're on the treatment for years.

The research tracked the health of about 60,000 nurses and found that use of any kind of hormones for 10 years or more slightly raised the chances of developing breast cancer. I hate to say it, but well, hello, YEAH.

The official cause of death for Whitney Houston has been announced ... sort of. According to initial autopsy reports, the singer drowned -- with cocaine use and atherosclerotic heart disease listed as "contributing factors." Okay, cocaine use. Um, knock me over with a feather.

But when drug addiction kills, it's usually a sudden, unexpected death, right? What exactly is atherosclerotic heart disease and how did it cause Houston to drown in a bathtub?

Only one of those questions can be answered definitively at this point.

When someone has atherosclerotic heart disease, the arteries going to the heart and other organs are hardened because of plaque build-up. This can lead to stroke or heart attack.

So what does that mean? And how did Houston get the disease?

You gotta hand it to researchers who are devoted to finding the cure for cancer. While I usually can't stand the concept of a magic bullet for anything, when it comes to cancer, pinpointing a side effect-free treatment is obviously a just cause. And actually, there's a new potential magic bullet to show promise, and it's already getting a lot of hype. I'm just not sure the drug -- in its experimental stages -- is necessarily deserving of it.

Studies in the past have shown aspirin, taken daily, may stave off cancer. But there's been concern about the stomach ulcers the drug can cause, particularly in the elderly. Well, now, a new compound, called NOSH aspirin, has been tested by City College of New York rearchers on mice, and was effective in fighting, amongst others, cancers of the colon, lung, breast, prostate, pancrease, and blood. Impressive!

But there's a hitch.

With the rising costs of gas, food, prescription drugs, etc., we're all trying to save a buck or two. So it's no wonder that more of us are using coupons whenever we can. That's a winning premise for the manufacturers of FDA approved pharmaceuticals, who have been making out pretty darn well by creating direct-to-consumer coupons for their products. Nearly 19 million Americans who regularly take a prescription med have used coupons in the last year to save money, according to a 2011 survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. No big surprise, right?

But deal or no deal, sometimes these meds coupons aren't what they seem. They can actually end up costing you more -- financially or in a different way -- in the long-run, warns Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs.

I have insomniac friends who swear that taking prescription sleeping pills is the only way they can get to sleep. But a new study suggests that their good night's rest might be coming at a really high price.

According to this study, adults who take sleeping pills may be nearly four times more likely to die earlier compared to those who are not prescribed sleeping pills. Even those who only take a small number of pills are at risk. And, that's not all of the bad news: People who take prescribed sleeping pills may also be more likely to be diagnosed with cancer. Now, if that's not scary enough to keep you up at night, I don't know what is ...

Most of us reacted to news of Whitney Houston's death on Saturday night with anything but surprise. Dismay perhaps, but shock, no. Despite a recent attempt at a comeback, the pop legend's battles with addiction have been well-documented. And sadly, we can guess it was likely only a matter of time before her demons got the best of her. Early speculation pointed the finger at Houston's off and on addiction to cocaine, but the L.A. County Cornoner's office says it's "too early" to know what actually happened and won't have an official cause of death from toxicology reports for six to eight weeks. Nonetheless, it sounds like the culprit may have been a deadly cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol.

Common, legal pharmaceuticals Lorazepam, Valium, Xanax, and a sleeping medication were all found in Houston's hotel room.