New App Helping Patients Protect Themselves From Drug Interactions

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PITTSBURGH (CBS) — As people are taking more and more medications and supplements, drug interactions are becoming a potentially serious problem.
Estimates are that more than 2 million patients are hospitalized every year after they inadvertently mix their prescription drugs, with 100,000 of them dying annually.
So how can you protect yourself? There is a way.
“People are using different pharmacies, going to different doctors,” Dr. Dan Johnson