Shedding Light on the Risks
& Benefits of Medications
On June 27, 2024, Mary Louise Cormier, age 91, was admitted to the MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital Emergency Department in Brunswick, Maine, after showing signs of lethargy…
Aug 27, 2025
Each year, an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S. are affected by medication errors. Older adults face an even greater risk due to the challenges of juggling multiple…
Mar 12, 2025
If you have hypertension — high blood pressure — you may think that the only way to control it is to take a drug. But…
Nov 23, 2024
Pain was one of the first sensations Brandy, 44, remembers. Born with spina bifida occulta, a defect that kept part of her spine from fully…
Nov 3, 2025
Suzanne Robotti launched MedShadow Foundation in 2013 with the goal of helping people understand the risks and benefits of medicines. The mission has expanded to…
Dec 4, 2025
High blood pressure (hypertension) is sometimes called the “silent killer.” It often has no symptoms at all, but it can raise your risk of deadly events such as heart…
May 13, 2024
In 2018, the parents of a six-year-old girl told CBS News Texas that their daughter had hallucination and attempted to climb out of her second-story bedroom window…
Dec 1, 2024
In July 2023, Lara Martin visited the emergency room in Humboldt County, California, with what she suspected was a urinary tract infection. Martin, who had…
Mar 21, 2025
In January 2024, a former church daycare director in Cumberland, Indiana, was convicted of neglect and reckless supervision for giving melatonin gummies to more than…
May 1, 2025
It’s been 16 years since the first vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The human papillomavirus (HPV)…
Mar 31, 2022
