Morris Collen, M.D: Drug Interactions

Pioneering Researcher at 95 Returns to Lifelong Quest in Drug Interactions

By Crystal Phend, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 24, 2008 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 24 -- When Morris Collen, M.D., peers into his medicine cabinet at the assisted-living facility apartment where he lives, his thoughts are far from the typical musings of a 95-year-old. He is thinking of adverse drug interactions.

He considers his eight daily prescription drugs, the eyedrops, and the multivitamins he takes, and he wonders how each affects the others, and what this hodgepodge is doing in his body./.../