Insidermedicine com Week In review

Description: This is Dr. Sanjay Sharma for Insidermedicine. As head of the medical writing team, we are out there each and every day trying to bring you the latest in health and medical information. It has been an interesting week in medicine. Here is what I learned. Polypharmacy, that is the concept of taking many medicines. It is a problem in the elderly. A research paper has shown that only 13% of the elderly who are on numerous medicines take them correctly. Those who take 10 or more are at ...