Adverse drug reactions need to be taken seriously - I regularly hear from patients and parents that reporting adverse drug reactions to doctors frequently leads to denial of the association This short...

Adverse drug reactions need to be taken seriously - I regularly hear from patients and parents that reporting adverse drug reactions to doctors frequently leads to denial of the association This short...

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Agonists: A drug group that may be a killer - There’s something rotten about a drug group known as the agonists. There are agonists for Parkinson’s disease, appetite suppression, and migraine. T...

Drug interactions with foods - Four years ago, the report of a review of all major studies of the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in hospitalised patients (JAMA, 1998, 27...

Hypoglycemia - Q:Can you tell me more about hypoglycemia? Why, when blood sugar drops, does blood pressure rise accordingly? I gave up on doctors. One said it's "ju...

Pregnant women prescribed dangerous drugs - Women who are very young or pregnant are two population groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. This is because trials h...

Drug Reactions: Deaths and serious problems triple in 8 years - The annual rates of serious adverse reactions and deaths from a prescribed drug have almost tripled since 1998.