Johns Hopkins Health Alerts | Prescription Drugs | You and Your Medications

Consumer Information about Prescription Drugs:

Consumer Information about Prescription Drugs gives you the latest news on medications most commonly prescribed, and updates on over the counter medications as well.

Consumer Information about Prescription Drugs Articles:

Consumer Information:

• Consumer Information Alert: Adverse Drug Reactions and Other Age-Related Medication Concerns
• Consumer Information Alert: What Is an Authorized Generic Drug?

Consumer Information Alert: How To Dispose of Your Medications

• Consumer Information Alert: Affording Your Medications
• Consumer Information Alert: Should Physicians Use Secret Placebos?
• Consumer Information Alert: Big Pharma and Generic Drugs
• Consumer Information Alert: Drug Safety in the News
• Consumer Information Alert: Generic Drugs
• Consumer Information Report: Ordering Your Drugs Online
• Consumer Information Alert: Direct-To-Consumer Drug Ads -- What’s in them for you?
• Consumer Information Alert: Medication and the Media
• Consumer Information Alert: Drug Safety in the News
• Consumer Information Alert: Safe Use of Antibiotics
• Consumer Information Alert: Drugstore Aisle Updates on Warfarin, DHEA, Black Cohosh
• Consumer Information Alert: Drugstore Aisle Updates
• Medication Mistakes
• AmpliChip
• St. John's Wort and its interaction with Gleevec for leukemia

Other Prescription Drugs-related articles of interest:

Depression and Anxiety

• Antidepressant Warnings

Heart Health

• Medications and Sexual Dysfunction: What's the Connection?

Hypertension and Stroke

• Questions and Answers About Blood Pressure Drugs

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The material in the Prescription Drugs area draws on the expertise of Brent G. Petty, M.D., Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and other leading researchers at Johns Hopkins, this Prescription Drugs topic area will report on a wide-range of important subjects, including: aging and the risks of multiple drug use; the promise of pharmacogenomics; medication-related weight gain and what you can do about it; ordering drugs from Canada safely, and more.

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