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Commonly prescribed medications increase fall risk and related injuries in people with COPD

Written by | 17 Jan 2025

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing drugs, according to a new study. The study is published in […]

Initial prescriptions of sedatives among older stroke survivors may include too many pills

Written by | 18 Oct 2024

Although there has been a slight downward trend in the prescription of benzodiazepines (depressants that relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, produce sedation and reduce seizures) among older adults over […]

Last decade saw big decrease in teens who used commonly prescribed and misused prescription drugs

Written by | 28 Jul 2024

Since 2009, U.S. high school seniors have reported steep declines in medical use, misuse and availability of the three most commonly prescribed and misused controlled substances for teens, […]

Want safer prescribing? Provide doctors with a plan for helping patients in pain

Written by | 17 Jan 2024

Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what […]

Drug for panic disorder less effective than previously believed

Written by | 11 Nov 2023

New research reveals that the nation’s most widely prescribed type of sedative may be less effective than clinicians and scientists have been led to believe, based on publications […]

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