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Thousands Of Seniors Hospitalized Due To Diabetes Drugs And Blood Thinners Annually

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Diabetes drugs and blood thinners cause two-thirds of the 99,628 US senior hospitalizations each year because of drug adverse events, researchers from the CDC reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). The authors added that hundreds of millions of dollars could be saved if focus were placed on education and drug management of patients with certain long-term (chronic) diseases and conditions.

This article comes as the US government aims to bring down the number of repeat hospitalizations by one fifth by the end of 2013.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238287.php
 
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