Taking a medicine with alcohol can increase effects like sedation, poor hand and eye coordination, dizziness and poor judgement.
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Health care has traditionally focused on prescribing medications, with little focus on when to stop them. But pills and potions can add up over time and do more harm than good.
Antidepressants are prescribed for anxiety or depression but are also used in chronic pain and incontinence. When you get a respiratory infection, it’s important to avoid dangerous interactions.
Don’t be intimidated by the package insert that comes with your medication. Learning how to read it can help you better understand how drugs work.
Some of the prescription medications you’re taking may not mix with over-the-counter drugs.
Drinking alcohol with some medicine means they may not work so well. With others, you risk a life-threatening overdose.
Drugs can interact with one another in ways that are harmful. A study finds that taking oxycodone with certain SSRIs can make an opioid overdose more likely.
The same dose of a drug can have varying degrees of effectiveness and safety depending on how well the liver can metabolize it.
A panel of experts has urged caution regarding paracetamol during pregnancy. But that doesn’t change current advice to discuss pain relief with your doctor or pharmacist.
More than 47 million people age 65 and older live in the US, and many need help accessing health care. Here are some questions that grown children should ask their parents’ doctors.
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Channel 7 CRF Fellow in Medicines Use and Safety, Flinders University
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Principal Research Fellow in Human Milk and Lactation, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Senior lecturer, School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, The Ohio State University
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Associate Lecturer, Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Outcomes and Translational Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland
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Enterprise Fellow, University of South Australia
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety , Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of South Australia
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