Wellness Library

Drug Complaints Reach Record High

The above headline comes from the March 13, 2005 USA Today. The article starts by noting that in 2004 preliminary reports show that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received roughly 422,500 adverse-event reports from pharmaceutical companies, health professionals and patients, up nearly 14% from the 370,887 reports filed in 2003. The article noted

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Internet Drug Sales Dangerous

A study to be published in the December 1999 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (available on the internet at http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/05oct99/bloom.htm ), addresses the growing dangerous practice of purchasing prescription drugs through the internet. The study conducted by Bernard S. Bloom, PhD, and Ronald C. Iannacone, BS at the Department of Medicine, University of

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Inappropriate Prescribing

The above headline came from April 3rd, 2000 ABCnews.com site. This article points out a large problem caused by the rate at which Americans use prescribed drugs. In the article it states that last year alone an estimated one and a half million Americans were admitted to hospitals suffering from adverse side effects of medications.

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Hospitals Add Alternative Healthcare Choices

WebMD reported on July 20, 2006 that 25% of US Hospitals now offer what they called, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies.” This information comes from a new survey of nearly 1400 US hospitals showing this trend. Researchers Sita Ananth of Health Forum, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, and William Martin, PsyD, of the

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Hospital Admissions Due to Doctor Caused Diseases Still High

From the Archives of Internal Medicine January 11th 1999, comes the headline, “Despite high-tech medicine, diseases from medical treatment still significant cause of Intensive Care Unit admissions.” Doctor caused diseases are referred to “iatrogenic” diseases, and according to the article are a major cause of ICU admissions. Surprisingly, the problem has not changed since 1980.

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Hormone Pills Added to List of Carcinogens

This headline comes from a July 29, 2005 Associated Press story reporting from London that the United Nations’ International Agency for Research on Cancer has added hormone pills to the list of substances that can cause cancer. The article noted that hormonal menopause therapy was being reclassified from “possibly carcinogenic” to “carcinogenic” because of the

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