Doctors prescribing risky drugs to seniors, costing Canada up to $1.8 billion per year: UBC study

Doctors across Canada are prescribing over $400 million a year in potentially risky medicines, whose harms, including death, often outweigh their benefits in patients over the age of 65, a B.C.-led study shows. And if indirect costs like hospitalizations stemming from side effects like drug interactions, falls and fractures are included, the costs of such “common, […]