Overprescribing the Healthy Elderly: Why Funding Research and Drug Safety is Paramount

My frail, 92-year-old mother was prescribed 80 mgs of the cholesterol-lowering drug, or statin, simvastatin for years. She fell four times in the last four years of her life: the last fall was the least forgiving.

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Overprescribing the Healthy Elderly: Why Funding Research and Drug Safety is Paramount