Medication Records | Health Savvy | Savvy Cafe
Nov 15 2007
(NC)-Many people make unexpected visits to hospitals or their health care providers and when asked, don’t have a record of the medications they are taking. A recent Decima survey for Shoppers Drug Mart showed that 26 per cent of respondents keep a list of their medications, but less than half of them keep it handy [...]
(ARA) – Getting the flu can have serious consequences, especially for children. Every year, children in the United States get extremely ill and some die from influenza (“the flu”) and its complications. Richard Kanowitz knows this all too well — he and his wife Alissa lost their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to the flu four years [...]
Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.
Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old mother, Jewell Fondren, suffers from osteoporosis (a disease that causes bone to become weak and susceptible to [...]