Prescribed Drugs Kill 100,000 A Year

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Prescribed Drugs Kill 100,000 A YearSacramento Bee, Wed. April 15, 1998: "Drug reactions a top killer research finds. "More than 100,000 people a year die from adverse reactions to medications--and more than 2 million become seriously ill from them. "The deaths, as described in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, are not due to mistakes by doctors in prescribing drugs or by patients in using them. Rather, drug reactions occur because virtually all medications can have bad side effects in some people, even when taken in proper doses. "‘We want to increase awareness that drugs have a toxic component,’ said Dr. Bruce Pomeranz, an author of the study and a professor of neuroscience at University of Toronto. ‘It’s not rare.’ "The findings are a surprise, though, because deaths from adverse drug reactions often go unrecognized. Even when the cause is known to be a drug, that is rarely recorded on the death certificate, Pomeranz said. A certificate might list a stomach hemorrhage as the cause of death, without mentioning the drug that brought it on.

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