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Risks of Multiple Medications If you’re over the age of 60, chances are you’re taking multiple medications. In the last 10 years, the percentage of people over 60 who take five or more medications has jumped from 22 percent to 37 percent. Right now, there are more than 30 million…
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If you’ve ever taken antibiotics, you may know they sometimes deliver a nasty surprise: Nearly one in three people who are prescribed antibiotics develops diarrhea as a side effect. But a new study, published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests a potential solution: Researchers found…
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If you’re over the age of 60, chances are you’re taking multiple medications. In the last 10 years, the percentage of people over 60 who take five or more medications has jumped from 22 percent to 37 percent. Right now, there are more than 30 million Americans taking five or…
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If you’ve ever taken antibiotics, you may know they sometimes deliver a nasty surprise: Nearly one in three people who are prescribed antibiotics develops diarrhea as a side effect. But a new study, published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests a potential solution: Researchers found that…
Risks of Multiple Medications
If you’re over the age of 60, chances are you’re taking multiple medications. In the last 10 years, the percentage of people over 60 who take five or more medications has jumped from 22 percent to 37 percent. Right now, there are more than 30 million Americans taking five or…
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Most Patients Don’t Tell Their Doctors They Take Supplements Did you take your multivitamin today? Toss down a fish oil supplement? Swallow a couple of chondroitin capsules to ease your aching, arthritic knees? Pop a ginkgo biloba to improve memory? You could be doing more harm than good. Nearly half…
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How Much Vitamin D Should You Take? Although scientists continue to debate among themselves how much vitamin D is enough, they agree that deficiency is widespread and that current federal guidelines are woefully inadequate. The guidelines, last updated in 1997, call for 400 IU (international units) a day for adults ages 51…