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"Which?" Medicine: The Essential Consumer Guide to Over 1500 Medicines in Common Use ("Which?" Guides) - Softcover

Grant, Rosalind

 
9780340602935: "Which?" Medicine: The Essential Consumer Guide to Over 1500 Medicines in Common Use ("Which?" Guides)

Synopsis

Examines how medicines work and how and why people react in different ways to the same preparations. The book explores particular body systems, the common conditions and diseases and the drugs used to combat them, as well as explaining what the wanted and unwanted effects are.

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Synopsis

This consumer guide to 1500 prescription and non-prescription medicines answers all the questions there's never time to ask in a GP's surgery. The book describes how medicines work and why their effects may be different for different people, looks at the various body systems (ie., heart, circulation, skin, breathing, mind and nerves), common conditions and diseases, and suggests what questions patients should be putting to their doctors concerning their own treatment. Special attention is given to use of medicines by over-65s. A discussion of recent changes in drugs legislation, including the extension of the "selected list", glossary of medical terms and addresses of relevant organizations and self-help groups complete the book.

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