Drug-Food Interactions: Anticoagulants and Vitamin K

Anticoagulants (blood thinners) have some of the narrowest therapeutic windows of all the drugs available on the market. With Coumadin (warfarin) available in 0.5-1mg increments, it's easy to see that the tiniest alteration in dose can cause problems with too much clotting or too much blood thinning.

Drug-Food Interactions: The Fact and Fiction of Grapefruit Interactions

Grapefruit seems to be the buzz word now-a-days in the medical world. With evidence that it can cause serious drug-food interactions due to alterations in liver function, experts on both sides are eager to get information out about it. Citrus growers don't want people abandoning their product out of fears of a drug interaction and pharmacists, doctors and drug companies want the correct information out there so that medications are as safe an effective as possible.