Promoting safe use of blood thinners and diabetes medications can protect patients
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–November 28, 2011. Each year, there are nearly 100,000 emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in U.S. adults aged 65 years or older, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
. Of the thousands of medications available to patients, a small group of blood thinners and diabetes medications caused two–thirds of…
