The New York Times, June 19, 2018. A third of children under 19 are regular users of dietary supplements or alternative medicines. Using data from a large national health survey, researchers found that multivitamins were the most common supplements, followed by vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D and melatonin. The lead author, Dima M….Continue Reading A Third of Children Use Alternative Medicines
LA Times, June 12, 2018. The incidence of depression has been rising in the U.S. for more than a decade. So has Americans’ reliance on prescription medications that list depression as a possible side effect. The researchers, led by Dr. Dima Mazen Qato of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago,…Continue Reading Are prescription medications making Americans depressed?
The Washington Post, June 12, 2018. More than a third of American adults are taking prescription drugs, including hormones for contraception, blood pressure medications and medicines for heartburn, that carry a potential risk of depression, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dima Qato, an assistant professor at the…Continue Reading More than a third of American adults take prescription drugs linked to depression, study says
Reuters, June 2018. (Reuters Health) – More than one-third of American adults take medications that have the potential to cause depression, a U.S. study suggests. As of 2015, about 38 percent of adults took one medicine with depression as a known side effect, up from about 35 percent a decade earlier, researchers report in JAMA….Continue Reading Many U.S. adults take medicines that can cause depression
WBEZ Chicago, January 24, 2018. You’ve heard of food deserts — often low-income neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a grocery store. Now another service desert is on the rise in these same neighborhoods: pharmacy deserts. As pharmacies slowly begin to close down on Chicago’s South and West sides, residents are finding it…Continue Reading Where Did All The Corner Drug Stores Go? Areas Lose Easy Access To Medicine
WTTW News, January 23, 2018. In recent years, pharmacies have increasingly become frontline health care providers, offering a range of services from drug counseling to immunizations to physicals. But in poor communities of color on the West and South Sides of the city, many pharmacies have closed their doors, creating so-called “pharmacy deserts.” These areas…Continue Reading Access to Pharmacies Increasingly Difficult on South, West Sides
WTTW News, October 27, 2017. In some city neighborhoods pharmacies appear to be in abundant supply, but in others they are few and far between. As with areas that lack access to grocery stores, many residents of Chicago now live in “pharmacy deserts.” “Pharmacies are an essential resource for any community. They provide medicines. They…Continue Reading UIC Researchers to Address Pharmacy Deserts, Closures in Chicago
The New York Times, April 26, 2016. Some common combinations that cropped up in the study and could spell trouble: aspirin and the anti-clotting drug clopidogrel (Plavix), both blood thinners that together increase the risk of bleeding with long-term use; aspirin and naproxen (Aleve), over-the-counter drugs that when combined can cause bleeding, ulceration or perforation…Continue Reading The Dangers of ‘Polypharmacy,’ the Ever-Mounting Pile of Pills
USA Today, April 24, 2016. Americans are taking more prescription medications. They also are taking more supplements — everything from vitamin and mineral pills to fish and flax seed oils. The natural result: More are combining drugs and supplements. That may be riskier than many consumers realize. “It’s a serious concern, and the risk is…Continue Reading Warning: Supplements and medications may not mix
The Washington Post, March 24, 2016. The number of older Americans at risk for a potentially life-threatening drug interaction doubled between 2005 and 2010, according to a new study — but not just from the prescriptions they fill at the pharmacy or the medicines they buy over the counter. “Dietary supplements, which are not really…Continue Reading Older Americans are taking their vitamins — and that could be dangerous