Browsing: overprescribing

As you age and your health changes – for better or for worse – the medicines you take will change too.
Work with your doctor to make sure you are taking the right drugs at the right doses at the right time. Prescription checkups can help you avoid side affects that can make you miserable.

By Diane Archer JustCareUSA Drugs recently approved by the FDA — within the last ten years — may turn out…

Using e-cigarettes daily can significantly increase a person’s risk of having a heart attack. Researchers analyzed responses from almost 70,000…

When your doctor prescribes drugs you don’t need, you have been overprescribed. Even 1 medicine can be too much when…

Do you take 4 pills a day? If so, you’re like most Americans. Yet what are we taking all these…

While opioid medications are usually prescribed to women following a caesarean section (C-section) birth, new research indicates that many more…

About 1 in 5 hospitalized patients that receive antibiotics have an adverse reaction to them, according to a new study…