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Medical Care

Is Your Medication Really Safe?

Posted November 10, 2008 2:00 PM

Medication errors harm at least 1.5 million people every year, according to a 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. An estimated 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals, and another 800,000 occur in long-term-care settings. Among Medicare recipients alone, 530,000 medication errors -- from wrong dosage, wrong route of administration or wrong medication -- occur Read more...

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Heart Health

Cholesterol Drug May Be Big Lifesaver

Posted November 10, 2008 12:27 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found. The results, reported Sunday at an American Heart Association conference, were hailed as a watershed event in heart disease prevention. Doctors said the study might lead as many as 7 million Read more...

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Menopause

How HRT Prescribed, Applied Affect Outcome

Posted October 6, 2008 5:16 PM

How a woman takes replacement hormones may affect her risk of heart attack, Danish researchers say. Dr. Ellen Lokkegaard, a gynecologist at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, led an observational study of 698,098 healthy Danish women, ages 51 to 69, who were followed between 1995 to 2001. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, found that overall there was no Read more...

See also: hormone replacement therapy, HRT, outcome, prescription, symptoms

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Discussion Boards

Medicating Incontinence

Started by SJones00 on September 15, 2008 5:42 PM

Has anyone taken the drug oxybutynin, also known as Ditropan? Did you experience any side effects?

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Discussion Boards

Medicating Incontinence

Started by SJones00 on September 15, 2008 5:42 PM

Has anyone taken the drug oxybutynin, also known as Ditropan? Did you experience any side effects?

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Heartburn/GERD

Heartburn Pills May Increase Osteoporosis

Posted September 10, 2008 6:33 PM

Millions of people who take medications to treat indigestion and heartburn could be at increased risk of osteoporosis, Canadian researchers found. The study suggests that those who use the medications regularly for five years had a 44 percent higher chance of hip fracture, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. The scientists at the University of Manitoba say they suspect the Read more...

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Sex

Probe Your Prescriptions

Before you rush into taking HRT, consider what's in your medicine cabinet. While many of us are taking meds to help out our midlife health, those same drugs may be hurting our sex drive. Antidepressants and prescription painkillers are two of the worst offenders. Ask your physician if your meds could be causing your lowered libido, and explore your alternate drug options. ... View slideshow >>

Cholesterol

Consider Medication

Sometimes diet, exercise and stress reduction just aren't enough to get cholesterol into the safe zone. In terms of medication, physicians prescribe statins, which are able to control an enzyme in the body that is responsible for the manufacture of lipids, also known as fats. This control process reduces the body's production of cholesterol. Know that possible side effects of statins include... View slideshow >>

Long-Life Tips

Americans Overmedicate Themselves

Posted April 28, 2008 12:49 PM

About 130 million Americans swallow, inject, inhale, infuse, spray and pat on prescribed medication every month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates. Americans buy much more medicine per person than any other country. The number of prescriptions has swelled by two-thirds over the past decade to 3.5 billion yearly, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical Read more...

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Heart Health

Putting the Brakes on High Cholesterol

Posted August 27, 2007 3:41 PM

By Harvey B. Simon, M.D.Harvard Health LettersQUESTION: I hope you can clear up some family confusion. My doctor gave me a prescription for Niaspan, but my wife found the same medication, niacin, at the supermarket at a much lower price. Is it a drug or a vitamin?ANSWER: Niacin is a natural substance -- in fact, it's vitamin B3. Like other vitamins, it's required to keep the metabolism working Read more...

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