With more pharmaceutical products on the market for children, parents may be wary of having their kids take more than one drug at a time. A recent study in Pediatrics found 21.4% of children receiving Medicaid in the United States who took multiple prescription drugs in 2019 experienced adverse events stemming from drug interactions. Researchers studied drug-drug interactions (DDIs) for 781,019 patients under age 18 who took 2 or more outpatient prescriptions. The drugs most …
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