How to Buy Medicines Safely from an Online Pharmacy
Protect yourself and your family by using caution when buying medicine online. There are many pharmacy websites that operate legally and offer convenience, privacy, and safeguards for purchasing medicines. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that there are many rogue online pharmacies that claim to sell prescription medicines at deeply discounted prices, often […]
Monitoring Prescriptions to Catch Opioid Abuse
Illinois’ efforts to track drug prescriptions have come a long way from the paper and pencil reports of the early 2000s. The Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) is an online tool that lets prescribers view patient history to identify people who are at risk for opioid dependence. It’s designed to flag people who go medication shopping […]
How your genes affect your reaction to drugs
By Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D. Your doctor prescribes a medication. If you have a high risk of negative side effects, do you ask for something else instead? If you know the drug won’t work well for you, do you request more options? These questions aren’t just hypothetical. They’re at the heart of pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics is […]
Is your medication making you depressed?
Harvard Health Letters Be on the lookout for mood swings, sleeplessness, and anxiety when starting certain medications. We all get the blues from time to time. But if signs of depression, such as prolonged hopelessness or trouble concentrating, seem to come out of nowhere, the cause may be in your medication regimen. “I think most […]
Millions of adults skip medications, primarily due to their high cost
By Howard LeWine, M.D. Harvard Health Blog Medications can do wonderful things, from fighting infection to preventing stroke and warding off depression — but they don’t work if you don’t take them. Some people don’t take their medications as prescribed because they forget, or are bothered by side effects. A new report from the National […]
