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Prescription Medications Should be Taken with Care
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Most Recently Shared on March 13, 2012 at 9:30 pm By:
It’s not uncommon for forty and fifty-something women to be taking as many as three prescription medicines daily. http://t.co/4d24pdE9
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Doctors must consider their patients' voices | Pacific Daily News | guampdn.com
guampdn.com — “I recently saw a middle-age man in my primary care clinic who asked whether he should continue his cholesterol medication. He was reacting to new Food and Drug Administration warnings on statins, a class of drugs taken by more than 20 million Americans to lower their cholesterol.” View full resource at guampdn.com
Most Recently Shared on April 3, 2012 at 1:03 am By:
Eric Topol, MD Internist, Cardiologist, Physician, and Doctor
Statins and -> diabetes: "Doctors must consider their patient voices" @kevinmd http://t.co/KhQsnnRG well put #CDoM
Elderly sometimes keep using opioids after surgery - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — “From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in ten older adults prescribed a powerful painkiller after surgery was still filling prescriptions for the drug a year later, a new study from Canada shows. Because so-called opioids, which include codeine and OxyContin, have a higher risk of abuse and overdose than other painkillers, researchers say the drugs should be prescribed carefully and patients followed closely. The patients in the current study hadn't taken opioids before their surgerie” View full resource at news.yahoo.com
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Elderly sometimes keep using opioids after surgery: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in ten older adults prescrib... http://t.co/s3ZfsI8W
An Obese Boy Is Placed in Foster Care. Can It Help? – TIME Healthland
healthland.time.com — “An 8-year-old boy in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was taken from his family and placed in foster care last month because his mother failed to control the third-grader's ballooning weight. The county's family services department considered it a form of medical neglect.” View full resource at healthland.time.com
Most Recently Shared on November 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm By:
Yale Rudd Center Health Organization
An Obese Boy Is Placed in Foster Care. Can It Help? http://t.co/dJZOozld via @TIMEHealthland
Florida PDMP Prescription Drug Monitoring | Dr. Gorrell Says Live Life To The Fullest!
doctorgorrell.com — “Allows practitioners to request access to the patient’s prescription history information during office visit to ensure better patient standard of care, avoid prescribing medications that may be dangerous when taken in combination and identify possible “doctor shoppers”” View full resource at doctorgorrell.com
Most Recently Shared on October 31, 2011 at 2:57 pm By:
Kelvin W Gorrell MD Doctor, Anesthesiologist, Pain Medicine Physician, and Physician
Florida PDMP Prescription Drug Monitoring - http://t.co/IgXnnkQf
Many Medicines, Many Not Taken - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com — “As many as half of Americans don't stick to their medication regimens. Now, health-care providers have new strategies to increase drug adherence, as concerns rise about health risks and the high costs of treating noncompliant patients who have chronic illnesses.” View full resource at online.wsj.com
Most Recently Shared on October 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm By:
Lisa Gualtieri Health Social Media
I retitled this "The Pill Not Taken" (with all due respect to Robert Frost) http://t.co/bZazpnWQ via @WSJ @PamRessler #Pharma
Dr. Cindy Haines - Healthday |
drcindyhaines.com — “Dr. Cynthia Haines M.D. (Dr. Cindy Haines) is president of Haines Medical Communications, Inc, Chief Medical Officer of HealthDay, and author of The New Prescription: How to Get the Best Health Care in a Broken System.” View full resource at drcindyhaines.com
Most Recently Shared on September 28, 2011 at 9:49 pm By:
Dr. Cindy Haines Physician, Doctor, Family Medicine Doctor, and Health Executive
Cancer Patients Should Ask Doctors to Use Simple Terms http://t.co/8PROOXSY
Antibiotic Prescribing to Kids — Down, But Still Too Much | Wired Science | Wired.com
wired.com — “In the CDC's weekly bulletin today, there's a report: 58 percent of the antibiotic prescriptions given to kids and pre-teens during medical office visits” View full resource at wired.com
Most Recently Shared on September 1, 2011 at 6:45 pm By:
Maryn McKenna Health Communicator
inappropriate Rxing of antibiotics to children won't stop. why not? http://t.co/Tf5rVxB cc @susanpromislo @CDDEP (cited)
Brain Attack Coalition updates recommendations for Primary Stroke Centers
medicalxpress.com — “Stroke patients who need emergency care should be taken to the nearest certified primary stroke center, which acts as a central point for stroke treatment, according to recommendations from the Brain Attack Coalition (BAC), a group representing medical, scientific, nonprofit and government leaders in ...” View full resource at medicalxpress.com
Most Recently Shared on August 26, 2011 at 1:58 pm By:
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Brain Attack Coalition updates recommendations for Primary Stroke Centers http://t.co/PLX5yyO
Obese Kids Should Be Taken Away From Parents, Experts Say - FoxNews.com
foxnews.com — “An opinion piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocates taking severely obese children out of their homes temporarily and placing them in foster care” View full resource at foxnews.com
Most Recently Shared on July 14, 2011 at 6:43 am By:
Health,Fitness,Diet Health Business
Obese Kids Should Be Taken Away From Parents, Experts Say http://bit.ly/nrHSKy
How to give medicines to Infants, Giving Children Medicine, | MyChildHealth
mychildhealth.net — “Special care should be taken while giving medicines available in the market without a prescription (over-the-counter) the liver of small babies and children may not be able to process the drugs and this may lead to dangerous accumulation of medicines and drugs in the body.” View full resource at mychildhealth.net
Most Recently Shared on July 9, 2011 at 9:00 am By:
TheGrowingYears Health Organization
How to give Baby Medicine ? http://www.mychildhealth.net/how-to-give-baby-medicine.html
As complexity rises, prescription adherence falls - Related Stories - AANP SmartBrief
smartbrief.com — “Patients become less likely to adhere to medication plans as the number of prescribing providers and the number of pharmacy visits required increase, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Health care providers, insurers and pharmacies should help patients simplify and--” View full resource at smartbrief.com
Most Recently Shared on May 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm By:
As complexity rises, prescription #adherence falls http://sbne.ws/r/7NQo #compliance #risk #PCP #APN #pharm #hcr #healthliteracy
Errors put infants, children at risk for overdose of painkillers: Prescriptions for narcotics often contain too much medication per dose
sciencedaily.com — “Parents who give young children prescription painkillers should take extra care to make sure they give just the right amount. What they may be surprised to learn, however, is that the dose given to them by the pharmacy could be too high.” View full resource at sciencedaily.com
Most Recently Shared on April 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm By:
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How Long Does It Take Percocet To Show Up In Your Urine After Taking 10mg Pill Tid (three Times A Day) (Newest posts first) - The People's Medicine Community
prescriptiondrug-info.com — “Need to know how long after taking a dose of percocet 10mg three times a day when will it show up in the urine how long does it for oxycodone to show up in my urine i dont care how long it takes to get out thanks narco man i take valium 4 times a day and oxycodone 5 325 6 times a day and i also have (Newest posts first)” View full resource at prescriptiondrug-info.com
Most Recently Shared on February 11, 2011 at 7:35 pm By:
" how long does it for oxycodone to show up in my urine i dont care how long it takes to get out thanks nar http://PD0.US/F194400
Health-care overhaul limits use of flexible spending accounts for some drugs
washingtonpost.com — “The health-care overhaul has taken some of the flex out of flexible spending accounts, which let workers pay medical expenses with pretax dollars. Starting in January, you'll no longer be able to use your FSA for over-the-counter drugs and medicines unless you have a doctor's prescription.” View full resource at washingtonpost.com
Most Recently Shared on November 8, 2010 at 11:30 pm By:
HealthTrendster Health Executive
Health-care overhaul limits use of flexible spending accounts for some drugs http://ow.ly/19RZqR
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