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How do medications work in the body? Is it safe to order medications online? Should you try to save money by buying drugs from Canada? Are the direct-to-consumer drug ads on television and the Internet helpful or harmful?
You’ll learn the answers to these and many other important questions here, in the Prescription Drugs topic section.
In this time of managed care and competing multimedia advertising, it is often difficult to distinguish solid, information from overblown hype. This area of the Johns Hopkins Health Alerts website provides timely, credible advice to help you be a more informed consumer of prescription drugs.
We cannot tell you which medications are best for you – your doctor and pharmacist will offer guidance in using your own prescription drugs safely and cost-effectively. What you will learn from this section will help you to ask the right questions, and have a better understanding of the answers.
Today’s abundance of prescription drugs offer longer and healthier lives to millions of us who are affected by diabetes, coronary heart disease, arthritis, prostate cancer, and many other long-term medical conditions. But these benefits come with an important caveat: Used inappropriately, prescription drugs may not help very much, and can even cause harm.
Drawing 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.
We will be updating the site at least once a month, so please bookmark this page so you can check back on all the latest Prescription Drugs news from Johns Hopkins.
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