{"id":12891,"date":"2026-04-27T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:09:00","slug":"too-many-prescriptions-too-many-fatal-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12891","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Prescriptions, Too Many Fatal Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/too-many-prescriptions-too-many-fatal-falls\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon of taking five or more medicines at the same time has become so common that it now has its own term \u2013 polypharmacy \u2013 and there is no doubt that it increases the risk of dizziness, confusion, and loss of balance.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/too-many-prescriptions-too-many-fatal-falls\/\">Too Many Prescriptions, Too Many Fatal Falls<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon of taking five or more medicines at the same time has become so common that it now has its own term \u2013 polypharmacy \u2013 and there is no doubt that it increases the risk of dizziness, confusion, and loss of balance. The post Too Many Prescriptions, Too Many Fatal Falls appeared first on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}