drugs
Prescription Drug Interactions Are Killing Our Seniors
Last year in Canada 3300 seniors over the age of 65 died from drugs prescribed for them that interacted with medications they were already taking. Almost 200,000 patients were hospitalized in Canada due to drug reactions that could have been avoided and the extra cost to taxpayers to stabilize these patients and allow them to recover from the drugs cost us almost one billion dollars in 2006. Continue reading
Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Really Work?
When Mevacor (lovastatin) was first introduced in 1990 it was heralded as the first of a new classification of drugs that would reduce heart attacks and strokes by at least 25%. Continue reading
Did you ever wonder how drugs really work?
Did you ever wonder about the drugs that you take, how they find their way to the pain, how they can selectively bring your blood pressure down to normal, how they stop your allergies? Continue reading