Can you understand your doctor's handwriting? I can't! Tips to read your prescriptions

Can you understand your doctor’s handwriting? I can’t! Tips to read your prescriptions

The Latin and English abbreviations on prescription slips are “shorthand” directions for how and when a medication is to be used, and other special directions for use (for example, at bedtime, the number of times a day, orally or topically, and so on) that are put on the container’s label prep

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36 Easy things that you can do to make the life of your chronically ill friend a bit better.

36 Easy things that you can do to make the life of your chronically ill friend a bit better.

You do not need to spend a lot of money. You can be thoughtful in so many ways. The point is to do something, and do something today. I have listed below 36 easy ideas that anyone would appreciate. Sometimes it is hard for a patient to ask for help. Just do it! The hardest thing about chronic dise

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The Lupus Taxpayer Gifts Bill needs your help!

Wonderful News! The Lupus Taxpayer Gifts Bill, which will allow Lupus to be one of the charity choices taxpayers can donate to on their NYS Tax return, passed unanimously in the NYS Senate late last week! Thank you to everyone who took the time to write letters and call their representatives to

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