Opioid pain medications, which are often legitimately prescribed by a physician following an injury or surgery, can quickly become addictive and turn into a dangerous drug habit for some patients...
Despite improvements in their performance over the past decade, electronic health records (EHRs) commonly used in hospitals nationwide fail to detect up to one in three potentially harmful drug interactions...
A trip to the pharmacy should be simple. Pick up your medications and be on your way, right. But what about your medication's potential side effects or interactions with other...
It seems counterintuitive to treat an addiction to a drug with another drug. However, that's exactly the strategy in the current fight against the opioid epidemic.
We all know about the danger posed by opioids. However, there's another dangerous substance currently being used and abused that has received less attention.
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability around the world. And now there is growing concern that much of that money is being spent on treatments that either...
American hair loss sufferers spend more than 3.5 billion dollars a year in an attempt to treat their hair loss. Unfortunately, 99 percent of all products being marketed in the...
Antibiotics were the wonder drug of the 20th century, but many bacteria have evolved resistance. According to the CDC, more than two million people in the United States develop bacterial...
Baby Boomers are getting older - and taking more medications as they do. One in six are taking a potentially dangerous combination of drugs and supplements, according to a new...
