Study: Medications potent 40 years after expiration date
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Are you spending too much money on medication? If you toss out your prescriptions, as soon as they expire, you might be jumping the gun. Video by ktnv.com
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Are you spending too much money on medication? If you toss out your prescriptions, as soon as they expire, you might be jumping the gun.
A researcher from the University of California, San Francisco found most drugs are still potent 40 years after their expiration dates.
But, some argue the drugs used in this study were stored unopened for all those years, and that similar drugs stored in other conditions might have a different outcome.
The study appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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