TUESDAY, April 17 (Healthday News) -- When Medicare stops paying for seniors' medications after they enter the Part D "donut hole," the seniors often go without the drugs, even if the medications are essential for heart health, new research shows. read more..
Be careful how you wash down your Medications. The wrong drink with those drugs could cause a harmful interaction. Get more info here:
Drinks That Interact With Medications - Prevention.com
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Combining some OTC drugs and prescriptions with common drinks like fruit juices, sports drinks, and alcohol can be hazardous to your health. Learn which drink-drug combos to avoid. read more..
Your health history is important. Keep notes in a medication record book. Learn what information you need to have: read more..
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(Reuters) - Many patients taking a widely prescribed class of oral cancer drugs are also using a variety of medications that could reduce the effectiveness of the cancer treatment or increase its toxic side effects, according to research by Medco Health Solutions Inc. For example, 43 percent of patients taking the highly effective leukemia drug Gleevec were also on another medicine that could diminish its efficacy, while 68 percent were taking something that could potentially raise the toxicity level, the study found. ... read more..
(Reuters) - Up to a fifth of patients being treated for Depression with some Medications may do worse than those given a Placebo, according to a U.S. study. The findings, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, highlight the importance of quickly identifying how patients respond to certain drugs, said lead author Ralitza Gueorguieva, at the Yale University School of Health. "Identifying variables that are associated with response is a very important question that we haven't quite tackled," she said. ... read more..
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The world is full of people who are taking dozens of medications unnecessarily. Oh, the medicine is definitely necessary to manage their health conditions - except that many of those conditions would disappear if the people would simply change their habits. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, sleep apnea, heart disease and diabetes - many of these ailments are directly related to obesity and resolve themselves with just a change in lifestyle habits. read more..
