Sweating is the normal way the body cools itself off. But waking up every night with sweat-drenched sheets is not – especially if you have other symptoms too.
A new study found that those with student loans are more likely to delay medical, dental and mental health care.
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There are lots of reasons someone might want to stop taking antidepressants, from a life change to wanting to take a break. But the process of tapering off medications needs to be carefully managed.
If you think your medicine may be contributing to overheating, it’s very important you keep taking your medicine. Discuss your symptoms with your pharmacist or doctor.
A new law will let Medicare bargain for the first time. But a health policy scholar explains why it’s unlikely to make much of a difference in how much seniors – or anyone else – pays for their meds.
Having multiple prescriptions is difficult enough to keep track of, let alone ones with complicated names.
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Believe it or not, medication names are intended to be easy to remember and descriptive of the function they serve in the body.
While pills come in many shapes and sizes, they all eventually reach your bloodstream and travel throughout your body.
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From tablets and patches to ointments and infusions, the best way to deliver a drug is the one that gets the right amount to the right place.
Many counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs are sold online, and the bulk of them are being obtained without a prescription.
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Prescription opiods, stimulants such as those used to treat ADHD and the ingredients found in sexual dysfunction drugs like Viagra are some of the drugs that are being marketed to US consumers.
When news reports tout a drug, people get interested, even if the benefits are unproven. Patient hopes, requests and demands can easily turn into real prescriptions in their doctor’s office.
The COVID-19 Emergency Response Act enables compulsory drug licensing to help avoid medication shortages.
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Toilet paper shortages were bad enough. A shortage of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic would be worse. A provision in the Canadian government’s relief package aims to prevent that from happening.
Some boomers are on multiple medications. Combinations of those drugs could have serious side effects.
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For most medicines, it doesn’t matter when you take them. But others work best at particular times.
When people went to their GP asking for painkillers, they weren’t prescribed higher doses of codeine or stronger opioids, as some feared.
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When codeine became a prescription only drug in 2018, the number of overdoses dropped, our new research shows. But restricting sales of codeine is only one way to reduce harm from opioids.
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
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne