Self-medication can lead to unintended side effects and even serious health risks. Indians obsessing over self-medication ...

Animals sometimes seek new foods because illness has affected their tastes—leading them to medicate with foods they normally avoid.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...