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Store Your Medication Properly to Prevent Injuries and Ensure Effectiveness
| September 25th, 2018
Getting safe and effective results from medications means taking the correct dosage at specific times of day and making sure the drug isn’t expired. But those aren’t the only steps patients should take when it comes to their medications. Many drugs are susceptible to reduced effectiveness due to being stored improperly, and medications that aren’t
Read MoreHow Do Defective Medical Devices End Up on the Market?
| September 18th, 2018
When patients receive medical devices, such as joint replacements or pacemakers, they expect an improvement in their health and a reduction in the severity of related symptoms. But for countless patients every year, medical devices only worsen their health. Some may even experience life-threatening complications. With so much testing and strict standards for products—especially in
Read MoreHow Can You Tell if Your Joint Replacement Is Failing?
| September 11th, 2018
Knee implants and hip replacements are common medical devices. In fact, CNN reports that around 700,000 people receive knee replacements each year in the U.S. and another 400,000 receive hip replacements. Joint replacements promise to restore lost mobility and reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation. But for many patients, they create the problems they’re supposed to
Read MoreRecently Prescribed a New Painkiller Medication or Patch? You Could Suffer Serious Injuries.
| September 4th, 2018
Painkillers, especially opioids, are both extremely common and extremely dangerous in the U.S. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) says that more than 115 people die in America every day after overdosing on opioid medications or drugs. That may be because some pharmaceutical companies repeatedly told doctors, pharmacists, and other professionals in the medical
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