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Article: Spotlight On Health: How Healthy Is Your Medicine Cabinet?
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- Atlanta Inquirer
- Article date:
- October 19, 2002
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Atlanta Inquirer
10-19-2002
Two-thirds of American medicine cabinets are likely to have expired or
nearly empty medications of, according to a new study for www.mymedcab.com.
The survey supports experts' advice that consumers incorporate a "check up"
of their medicine cabinet into their seasonal routine to ensure it is
equipped to handle family members' potential illnesses and ailments.
According to the survey, past its prime products gets pitched more often
than tablets. Eighty percent of Americans surveyed clean out their
refrigerators seasonally, but only half that many (42 percent) clean out
their medicine cabinets as the seasons change. More Americans (55 percent)
also clean out their clothes ...