Adverse Interaction Risks Are Concern As Elderly Use Of CAM Grows – Study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Nearly 15 percent of the elderly Medicare population uses complementary and alternative medicine, but 5.8 percent are taking combinations with "significant potential risk for an adverse interaction," according to a study in the October Annals of Pharmacotherapy
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