Tag: Prescription drugs

  • Nation & World

    Use, abuse of Internet pharmacies

    Efforts to halt the growing abuse of prescription drugs must include addressing the availability of these drugs on the Internet and increasing physician awareness of the dangers posed by Internet pharmacies.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When cost-cutting backfires

    Chronically ill elderly patients, when asked to bear a higher share of health care costs, cut prescription drug use and office visits. Consequently, they were hospitalized more often, according to a Harvard Kennedy School study.

    4 minutes