Drugs: One in seven suffers drug reaction in hospital

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...

Children in Hospital: 11 per cent will have a drug reaction

How safe are our children in hospital? Not very, it seems, with 11 per cent who are given a drug suffering a serious adverse reaction.

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...

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 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...