OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: How much do YOU know about the medications you take?

If US Pharmaceutical Corporations are looking for backdoors to testing procedures to market their products faster, then it would be wise for ANYONE who is taking a prescription drug to break out the USP, (United States Pharmacopeia) or PDR (Physician 's Desk Reference) concerning any medication they don 't know virtually everything about--- effects, side effects and dangers, when and how much to take, what you can and can 't do whilst taking the medication, and what you can eat and/or drink or not, and for God 's sake don 't go to the company literature who made it if at all possible. ANY questions at all, and I do mean ANY questions should warrant a call to your doctor.

This is even more important if you have MORE THAN ONE DOCTOR! In my experience some physicians don 't pay close enough attention to older patients ' medication lists to see if they are duplicating meds, or worse still, prescribing drugs that counter act some and increase the effect of others.

As for the Pharmaceutical Companies, and some physicians with stock in these companies, like most Businesses, telling the ENTIRE truth is not always high on their list of priorities.

Remember!, many of your "elected representatives make large sums of money of the sale of these medications too!!

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