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Friday, February 9, 2007

A Celebrity Mom--A Dangerous Mix: Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith, may she rest in peace, bore a son Dan in 1986. Dan Smith had died suddenly in the Bahamas in September, while visiting his mother and her new baby girl, Dannielynn. A medical examiner recently determined that Dan's death was due to an interaction of methadone and anti-depressants.

Advice to patients on several drugs: Check this web site by ExpressScripts to learn if your medicines have potentially dangerous drug-drug interactions.

Read another drug interaction story, or read today's NY Times article by Abby Goodnough and Margalit Fox.

Posted by Ken Farbstein

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