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...

The 3 most dangerous drugs: They cause a third of all adverse reactions in the elderly - Just three drugs are responsible for a third of all serious adverse reactions among the elderly. The drugs – warfarin, insulin and digoxin – were 35...

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...

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.

Drug reactions: - It's the culprit more often than we're told - Drug regulators and drug companies are prepared to accept that at least 100,000 people in America alone die from an adverse reaction to a drug every y...

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...

Drugs reactions fill hospital beds - About 10 per cent of all hospital admissions in the US are due to adverse reactions to drugs. Reactions to devices and food supplements also account f...

Only 1 in 20,000 drug reactions reported by gps - French researchers have uncovered massive under reporting of adverse reactions to prescription drugs. This means drugs are probably far more dangerous...