Category: Drug-Drug Interactions
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List Of Internet Sites That Provide Medication Information And Drug Interaction Checkers
Patients Should Use These Free Self-help Resources In Addition To Telling Doctor About All Current Drugs And Supplements (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) In the February 27, 2007 edition of the Washington Post…
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Health Canada’s MedEffect Now Offers Online Reporting Of Adverse Drug Reactions
Objective Is To Increase Percentage Of ADRs That Get Reported To Regulators In October 2006 Health Canada announced that its MedEffect web site is now able to accept online reports of suspected adverse drug…
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Some Common But Severe Drug Interactions Involving Coumadin (Warfarin)
Beware Of "G" Herbs and Supplements: Garlic, Ginseng, Ginkgo Biloba, and Ginger In April 2006 Douglas S. Paauw, M.D., a University of Washington medical investigator, spoke at an American College of Physicians meeting about…
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Zocor-Amiodarone Drug Interaction Causes Rhabdomyolysis; Fifth Such Case Reported
Causation Theory: Zocor Is Metabolized By Same Enzyme Which Is Being Inhibited By Amiodarone On March 14, 2006 The Annals of Pharmacotherapy published online an article about what the authors described as "the fifth…
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“Black-box” Warnings Are Forgotten Or Ignored By Some Doctors
The So-called Black Box Is FDA’s Highest Form Of Drug Safety Alert In the February 14, 2006 edition of the medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine there is a report that many patients are…
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The Chance of Having an Adverse Drug Reaction Event Increases With Patient Age
Drug-drug Interactions are a Leading Cause of Drug Reactions, and Growing Due to Polypharmacy Because older adults often take more medications than younger adults, the number of adverse drug reactions increases with patient age.…
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At Least 4.3 Million Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) for U.S. Patients in 2001
Adverse Drug Reactions are a "significant threat to patient safety in the United States" Adverse drug events (ADEs) involving prescription drugs resulted in an estimated 4.3 million doctor visits by affected patients in the…
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SSRI Drugs Can Increase Risk of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Increased Risk of Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding When Taking Both SSRIs and NSAIDs Long-term use of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, increases the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding to a degree similar to that caused…
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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…