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Rhabdomyolysis Risk for Statin Users Increased By Drinking Grapefruit Juice
Risk is Most Significant for Patients on Cholesterol-lowering Zocor There is an increased risk of developing rhabdomyolysis, a potentially life-threatening muscle disorder, for patients taking statins when they drink grapefruit juice. This problem occurs…
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Multiple Prescription Medication Use by Americans Has Increased
Identification of Serious Drug-Drug Interactions: Internet Tools The aging of the population and increasing complexity of medication regimens used by patients, coupled with a fragmented health care system involving multiple prescribers, has made the…
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Medication Errors are Often Preventable: Patient Advice
How to Avoid being Dispensed or Prescribed the Wrong Drug It has been a few years since the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) published their report To Err is Human: Building…
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Serzone Class Action Settlement: Confidential Inventory Form Due May 13, 2005
Settlement Covers All Serzone Users Who Did Not "Opt-out" by April 8, 2005 Deadline All persons in the United States and its territories who were prescribed Serzone — an anti-depressant drug marketed and distributed…
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Drug-safety Information Database Project by UnitedHealth Group
Serious Side Effects Monitoring of New Medications Should Improve UnitedHealth Care Inc., one of the nation’s largest health maintenance organizations in the U.S., has announced a new drug-safety monitoring tool which should provide more…
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Trileptal Associated with Life-threatening Skin Reactions and Multi-organ Hypesensitivity: Health Canada Alert
Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) On April 28, 2005 Health Canada posted an alert on its web site concerning the association of Trileptal (oxcarbazepine), an anti-epileptic medication, with life-threatening dermatological…
