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« on: April 22, 2016, 09:35:25 AM »Tweeted by @TEDTalks
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http://www.ted.com/talks/russ_altman_what_really_happens_when_you_mix_medications?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science
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"The Dangers of ‘Polypharmacy,’ the Ever-Mounting Pile of Pills"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/health/the-dangers-of-polypharmacy-the-ever-mounting-pile-of-pills.html?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur
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What really happens when you mix medications? t.ted.com/1alDxbW @Rbaltman
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http://www.ted.com/talks/russ_altman_what_really_happens_when_you_mix_medications?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science
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If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.
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"The Dangers of ‘Polypharmacy,’ the Ever-Mounting Pile of Pills"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/health/the-dangers-of-polypharmacy-the-ever-mounting-pile-of-pills.html?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur
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“We’re not paying attention to the interactions and safety of multiple medications,” said Dima Qato, the lead author of the JAMA Internal Medicine article (Dr. Alexander was a co-author) and a pharmacist and epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “This is a major public health problem.”