Don't look now, but you have a drug problem.
Yes, you—and your mother, too. In fact, all women do. We're 50 to 70% more likely to suffer bad reactions to the drugs we take, studies show—and our side effects tend to be more serious. We're close to a third more likely than a man to quit taking the medicine we've been prescribed, at least for some diseases—even if stopping increases the risk of death. Just as bad, says Marianne Legato, MD, founder and director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine in New York City, some of the drugs we take simply may not help us get well. "Doctors need to pay attention to this," she says. "But too often, they don't ...more
Yes, you—and your mother, too. In fact, all women do. We're 50 to 70% more likely to suffer bad reactions to the drugs we take, studies show—and our side effects tend to be more serious. We're close to a third more likely than a man to quit taking the medicine we've been prescribed, at least for some diseases—even if stopping increases the risk of death. Just as bad, says Marianne Legato, MD, founder and director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine in New York City, some of the drugs we take simply may not help us get well. "Doctors need to pay attention to this," she says. "But too often, they don't ...more
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