
Alert -- Help us stop Medication Switching! Medication switching occurs when a prescription is changed from what the physician has written on the prescription form, to a different medication being dispensed at the pharmacy without your knowledge. Many health plans are now asking physicians to change your medication from what was prescribed to a therapeutic alternative, which is a different chemical compound. If this has happened to you, please share your story by emailing Community Health Charities of Florida at info@healthcharitiesfla.org. We would like to act proactively to stop this practice but we need your stories to get this grassroots movement going! Stories may be posted on our site and/or forwarded to parties working to stop this practice. By sending your story to info@healthcharitiesfla.org you are agreeing to the release of your story for publication. Stories should be no more than 150 to 200 words, and include your full name, address and telephone number for verification purposes; only names will be published, unless requested otherwise. We may condense stories and edit for grammar and clarity. Feel free to include a picture with your story. The more faces we put on this unfortunate practice the better message we will send to those who can stop it! For more information about medication switching please read this article entitled Not All Drugs Are The Same After All, from the New York Times. Keep track of your medications with this Consumer Alert card.
February is AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month

Macular degeneration, often called AMD or ARMD (for age-related macular degeneration), is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness, affecting 1.6 million Americans age 50 and older. Low vision is a term commonly used to mean partial sight, or sight that is not corrected with contact lenses or standard glasses. Vision is still functional but the degree of loss interferes with the ability to perform daily activities. The severity of the loss can be moderate to almost total blindness. Low vision aids can make the most of remaining vision. Information on eye disease warning signs and treatment are available. Low vision can be caused by an eye injury or various eye diseases. Common causes of low vision include:
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