How often has this happened to you: You pick up a prescription at the pharmacy and later realize you have questions about something in the directions or warnings. Or you buy an over-the-counter (OTC) drug but aren’t sure about the correct dosage after reading the label. That’s where pharmacists come in. Whether at your local… Continue reading How Pharmacists Can Help You
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4 Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults
Smart strategies from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on how best to take your medicines: Whether you’re settling into your sixties or heading into your ninth decade, be careful when taking prescription and over-the-counter medicines, herbal preparations, and supplements. And if you’re caring for older loved ones, help them stay safe, too. Why… Continue reading 4 Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults
“Health Literacy” Depends on Communication with Others
There’s no doubt that America’s poor “health literacy” is a public-health problem, but it cam be solved by increased interaction between people, according to a Michigan State University researcher. In a paper published in the journal BMC Public Health, MSU’s R.V. Rikard and colleagues found that people who are more connected with others on a… Continue reading “Health Literacy” Depends on Communication with Others
4 Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults
Here, from experts at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are some tips on managing your medications: Whether you’re settling into your sixties or heading into your ninth decade, be careful when taking prescription and over-the-counter medicines, herbal preparations, and supplements. And if you’re caring for older loved ones, help them stay safe, too. Why… Continue reading 4 Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults
Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health
When you take prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications, do you take also a vitamin, mineral, or other dietary supplements? Have you considered whether there is any danger in mixing medications and dietary supplements? There could be, says Robert Mozersky, a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “Some dietary supplements may increase the… Continue reading Mixing Medications and Dietary Supplements Can Endanger Your Health