Medications

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Most of us likely grew up with aspirin as a regularly used medication in our households. Whether the good old-fashioned Bayer brand or one of the other commercially available aspirin-based brands like “Bufferin” or “Anacin,” most of us can remember our parents taking or recommending a tablet for headache or…

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The statistic is stunning, yet may be a familiar data point. A new study out of the University of Buffalo reports that from 1999-2017, more than 7.8 billion medications that can increase the risk of falling were prescribed to older adults and that deaths as a result of falls more…

Whenever you need to take several medications to combat a disease or address multiple conditions, there’s always the potential for problems: You may have trouble keeping track of when and how many pills you’ve taken, you may have trouble swallowing multiple pills, or you may run into trouble if certain…