Adverse drug reactions

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Adverse drug reactions

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_USA: The Drugs That Generated Most Adverse Event Reports_

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In the third quarter of 2009, the number of serious, disabling and fatal

adverse drug events reported to the FDA numbered 29,065, compared to 26,809

in the same quarter a year earlier, an 8.4 percent rise, according to the

Institute for Safe Medicine Practices. For the first three quarters of 2009

combined, the total number of reports was 8.1 percent higher than in the

same period of 2008. (Link to article

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Table of most frequently reported drugs in 2009

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Adverse drug reactions on the increase. This is a trend going in the wrong

direction. How about a new strategy to reverse the trend of drugs maiming

and killing ever greater numbers of patients?

 

 

All it would take is a new rule: Every quarter, the drug with the highest

number of adverse event reports gets removed from the market. Yes,

pharmaceutical companies would squeal like pigs being stuck, but what gives them

the right to put damaging products on the market and say it is for everyone's

good?