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Drug Interactions: 3 Problem Combinations to Avoid
Reader's Digest — By Beth Howard From Reader's Digest A recent study underscores the need for care if you take more than a single drug. Many heart attack patients get two clot-busters to ward off another attack, plus a proton pump inhibitor to prevent the stomach ...More…
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Stay Connected with Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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A Fatal Combination: Cold Medication and Drinking
Reader's Digest — As told to Carol Kauffman From Reader's Digest Read more about The Drug Problem You Didn't Know About in Carol Kauffman's blog post The night my brother Harrison died, he'd been to a party. He'd had a cold that week, and my dad had ...More…
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More secrets from behind the drug counter.
Reader's Digest — Pharmacists are required by law in most states to counsel patients and answer their questions. If your pharmacist seems too busy to do talk with you, take your business someplace else. Half the prescriptions taken in the U.S. each year are used ...More…
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Exciting New Health Benefits for Old Drugs
Reader's Digest — From Reader's Digest Medication side effects can range from unpleasant (a rash) to fatal (heart problems). But some drugs come with pleasant surprises: Women who used these for asthma were 65 percent less likely to die from heart disease over ...More…
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Monday and Tuesday evenings,
Reader's Digest — Prescriptions for painkillers or sleeping aids always get extra scrutiny. I'd think twice about using a drive-through pharmacy. Working there distracts us-not a good thing when it comes to pharmaceuticals. E-prescribing can help, but as of 2006, ...More…
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
Reader's Digest — What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ...More…
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What Causes Stress?
Reader's Digest — From Looking After Your Body Regardless of the cause, stress sets in motion certain automatic changes in the body that are designed to give it a quick burst of energy. The pattern of changes has been called the "fight-or-flight" response because ...More…
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Making Medicine Safe
Reader's Digest — Several months ago, 11-year-old Hillary DeSmarais of Fort Worth, Texas, attended a party in her honor. People brought presents, laughed, and gave the healthy girl hugs. It wasn't her birthday; the party was at a hospital. At the age of six, ...More…
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Better Than a Pill?
Reader's Digest — It all started with a motion-sickness patch in 1981. Today, you can slap on a patch to avoid pregnancy, stop smoking or treat pain. Soon, you may see patches for Alzheimer's, depression, ADHD and diabetes. What's the point? "A patch is more . ...More…
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How to Really Communicate With Your Doctor
Reader's Digest — By Peggy Eastman From Reader's Digest Originally in Reader's Digest Small wonder. Given that a typical appointment lasts about 15 minutes and doctors interrupt patients, on average, 23 seconds after they begin to explain what's wrong, a ...More…
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Statins: The New Wonder Drugs
Reader's Digest — This class of drug, which also goes by the tongue-twisting name HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, has revolutionized the treatment of high cholesterol more than any other medication. In use for more than a decade, statins are sold under the brand ...More…