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Spring Cleaning: Check Your Medicine Cabinet

by alysiak
Posted: Thu., March 6, 2008, 07:55 pm
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Topics: drugs, medicine cabinet, over the counter, prescriptions
     
Spring is almost here. While "spring cleaning" the rest of your home, take time to check your medicine cabinet for expired remedies, prescriptions and OTC drugs. What should you toss and what should you have on hand in your medicine cabinet. USC Health (University of Southern California) suggests taking inventory of your medicine cabinet, even conducting a "brown bag review" of your prescription medicines with your pharmacist. As my brother-in-law is a respected pharmacist in his area, I'm sure he'd appreciate spreading the word on this topic!

     
     
     
     
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Non-Medical Use of Prescriptions Linked to Drug Abuse Risk Says Researcher Sean Esteban McCabe

by EmpowHer
Posted: Mon., March 3, 2008, 02:27 pm
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Topics: College Students, Drug Abuse, Medication, medications, prescriptions, Research, EmpowHer News
     

MONDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Among college students, non-medical use of frequently abused prescription drugs increases the risk of drug abuse, says a University of Michigan study.
     
     
     
     
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Many Patients Fail to Take Drugs After Heart Attack

by EmpowHer
Posted: Mon., February 25, 2008, 04:39 pm
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Topics: heart, heart attack, patients, prescriptions, Research, EmpowHer News
     

By Ed Edelson
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A quarter of the people who survive heart attacks don't take the drugs prescribed for them after they leave the hospital, a new study finds.
     
     
     
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