Americans buy more drugs per person than any other country, and for the first time more than half of all insured Americans take prescription drugs regularly for chronic health problems. This statistic may be indicative of a few major factors: worsening public health, more aggressive treatment by doctors, and the ever-present advertising dollars of pharmaceutical companies. The most widely used medicines are those used to treat high blood pressure and cholesterol. ”Unless we do things to change the way we’re managing health in this country … things will get worse instead of getting better,’’says Dr. Daniel Jones, president of the American Heart Association. Full story.
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.