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...

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...

Scheme set up for drug reaction - The US Food and Drug Administration has launched MEDWatch, a scheme to encourage health care workers to report side effects associated with drugs and...

Drug monitoring may be tightened - The Food and Drug Administration, the American drug regulator, is set to tighten controls on the safety of drugs so that adverse reactions can be iden...

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...

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 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.