The Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has very valuable content for both health care professional and consumer. This link goes to a newsletter that describes the role t[...]

Highlighted facts from “Adverse Drug Reactions in Old Age”, Hilary A. Wynne, Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin, April 2006, No. 237. ADRs in older adults are often severe with 30% of [...]

I reported in a post “Serotonin Syndrome: Rare Event or Common Occurrence”, a case-report of an older adult in a skilled nursing facility where the addition of Lexapro [...]

Drug-drug interactions are estimated to cause 26% of all adverse drug events (ADEs) and there is excellent work published by David Juurlink, MD, et al, identifying which drug inter[...]

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a very real problem in the community, associated with 25-30% of hospital admissions in older adults and estimated to be the 4th or 5th leading cause [...]

Here’s an odd one! Who would have ever suspected an association between the use of the selective alpha-blocker tamsulosin (Flomax), used for men with enlarged prostate to inc[...]

In the previous post I commented on recent findings in the British Medical Journal that concluded, certain classes of antidepressants were associated with a higher risk of harms, w[...]

Drug interactions are a significant contributor to the incidence of adverse drug events, with one reference suggesting that 50% of all ADEs are from drug interactions. One such int[...]

As is my mission to inform older adults and their caregivers on the pitfalls of medication use in older adults, I feel compelled to tell you about significant drug interactions tha[...]