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These Medicines Often Send Americans to ERs

November 23, 2016

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An estimated one in 250 Americans lands in the hospital emergency department each year because of a medication-related reaction or problem, a new federal study finds.

Among adults 65 and older, the rate is about one in 100, the study authors said.

Remarkably, the medicines causing the most trouble haven’t changed in a decade, the researchers noted.

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