Certain prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications taken together can cause a harmful interaction. Some of these can be serious, even life-threatening.
While doctors are generally pretty good at discussing these risks, it appears they...
Doctors Should Start Discussions Earlier on Driving Risks of Older Adults
The chance of sustaining injuries or being killed in a traffic accident increases with age. Elderly drivers are considered risks both to themselves and other drivers on the road for a variety of reasons. The stigma of reducing driving hours...
Doctors Unnecessarily Prescribing Powerful Antibiotics
A study from the University of Utah finds that about 60 percent of doctors are prescribing the most powerful antibiotics available. These broad-spectrum antibiotics are capable of killing many types of bacteria.
Yet researchers indicate that...