Tag: medication safety
How to Reduce Medication Risks with Simple Lifestyle Changes
Simple lifestyle changes like walking, eating less salt, sleeping better, and quitting smoking can reduce medication risks, lower drug doses, and improve health-without replacing prescribed treatments. Evidence shows these habits work alongside meds to prevent side effects and hospital visits.
How to Evaluate Media Reports about Medication Safety
Learn how to spot misleading media reports on medication safety by checking for absolute risk, study methods, and credible sources. Avoid stopping your meds based on sensational headlines.
Cumulative Drug Toxicity: How Side Effects Build Up Over Time
Cumulative drug toxicity occurs when medications build up in your body over time, causing side effects that appear slowly - often after years. Learn which drugs are most dangerous, how to spot warning signs, and what steps you can take to protect yourself.
Addressing Health Disparities in Medication Safety Research
Medication safety disparities disproportionately harm racial minorities, low-income patients, and non-English speakers due to bias, under-reporting, and lack of access. Learn how systemic failures in clinical trials, prescribing, and care delivery create dangerous gaps - and what real solutions are working.
The Science of Medication Safety: Understanding Risk, Benefit, and Real-World Evidence
Understanding how medication safety science identifies real-world drug risks beyond clinical trials, using data, statistics, and patient outcomes to protect lives and improve prescribing.
Pill Splitting Safety: Which Medications Are Safe to Split and Which Are Not
Pill splitting can save money but is risky if done wrong. Learn which medications are safe to split, which are dangerous, and how to do it correctly with a tablet cutter and pharmacist approval.
Verifying Your Prescription at the Pharmacy: A Simple Patient Checklist to Avoid Medication Errors
Learn how to verify your prescription at the pharmacy with a simple 6-step checklist to avoid dangerous medication errors. Know what to check, what to ask, and how to protect yourself.
Dangerous Medical Abbreviations That Cause Prescription Errors
Dangerous medical abbreviations like QD, U, and MS cause preventable errors that harm patients. Learn which ones to avoid, why they’re risky, and how to stop them from costing lives.