Commonly prescribed drugs & hospitals are killing & harming the elderly

Commonly prescribed drugs and hospitals are killing and harming the elderly

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by: Tony Isaacs
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(NaturalNews) Prescription drugs and the combination of those drugs and other medications are taking a heavy toll on elderly Americans, leading to risky hospitalizations, mental decline and death. And some of those drugs are worse than others.

A study published last November in the New England Journal of Medicine found that blood thinners and diabetes drugs caused most of the emergency hospital visits for drug reactions among people over 65 years of age in the United States. According to the study, just four medications - used alone or in combination - were responsible for two-thirds of the emergency hospitalizations among older adults.

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