From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could ...

As a result a huge number of sick people opt to buy medication over the counter from pharmacies and chemists whenever they feel unwell. This practice, known as self medication, is highly dangerous ...

Self-medication refers to the practice of researching about the illnesses or disorders that we may have, and based on minimal information, consume medicines without expert supervision. This can ...

Self-medication in the form of self-care of our health is popular in many countries. To help promote self-medication and ultimately aim to contain medical expenditure, Japan introduced taxation system ...

Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health? Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing ...

The most common self-sabotaging behaviors include procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting. People aren't always aware that ...

I’m looking at my bookshelf right now and I see a book about mosquitoes and, you know, there are some ideas that mosquitoes may actually [self-medicate] as adults. It’s only the females that ...

A cross-sectional study conducted among 600 older adults across six Indian cities has found that the prevalence of polypharmacy and unsafe self-medication is high in this population. Polypharmacy ...