My mother had her thyroid removed in her early 50s and took a thyroid replacement medicine for the last 30 years of her life. The sticker on the side of the bottle said to take it in the morning on an empty stomach, but she would often forget and eat breakfast before she realized that …
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Caroline, 89 years old, fell on her left side on the steps to her home while returning from church two weeks ago. The emergency department nurses put Steri-Strips® across it and told her to “keep it clean”. Yesterday she showed me a deep red 4-inch long open area on her left forearm oozing clear fluid, …
Some things just DON’T go together. Like oil and water…ice cream and ketchup… or pancakes and mustard. Some medicines just don’t go together either, and can cause serious problems if they’re combined. When 2 drugs should NOT be taken by the same person, it is considered a drug-drug interaction. One example of a drug-drug interaction …
Superwarfarins are compounds closely related to the blood thinner warfarin, but longer acting and more potent. Warfarin was originally developed for use as a rat poison by Dr. Karl Link at the Wisconsin Agricultural Research Foundation and was marketed as a rodenticide in 1948. After first a fast-acting antidote and then a blood test was …
Q: I’m on warfarin. Is it true that I’m taking RAT POISON? YES, you’re taking a medicine that originally was used to kill rats. We know warfarin, by the brand names Coumadin® and Jantoven® and as its generic name, warfarin. Warfarin is part of a group of plant-based compounds called coumarins. Coumarins are found in …