USA Today reported on a study published in the October 8, 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), that shows that nationwide, injuries due to medical error in hospitals result in about 2.4 million extra days in the hospital and $9.3 billion in extra charges for longer stays and more care.
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I guess under the heading, “If you can not beat them join them,” comes an article from the January 17, 2000 AMA News that reports that more than 75 US and Canadian medical schools are now teaching what the article called “complementary procedures.” In the article, Dr. Brian Bouch the medical director of Consensus Health,
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In two related articles the theme of doctors lying is the top issue. On the front page of the October 25th 1999 issue of the USA Today newspaper was the headline, “Doctors say they would lie to get insurers to pay.” Also on the front of the American Medical News was the title, “New Study
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The September 9, 2004 issue of the Washington Post contains a news story that speaks to drug companies only publishing the best results from drug trials while hiding the ones that may not have been so successful. In response a dozen editors of the most prestigious medical journals jointly announced that they will refuse to
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In the June 5, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association there are several studies and articles on the weaknesses and possible conflicts of articles that appear in a variety of medical journals. The story also reported in the June 5, 2002 Intelihealth starts by stating, ” One of world’s leading medical
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The above headline comes from one of a series of articles recently published on medical errors and side effects. The first article with the title above appeared in the April 16, 2003 MSNBC news. That article starts off by reporting that 3.34 BILLION prescriptions were dispensed in the United States in 2002 alone. With this
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This statistic is according to a recent article appearing in The Journal of American Medical Association. The author, Bruce Pomeranz, M.D., Ph.D., reviewed 39 different studies of adverse drug reactions in hospitals, and came up with some alarming conclusions. According to Pomeranz’s research, he estimates that 2,216,000 hospital patients experienced serious adverse drug reactions (side
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According to a Canadian study reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, antibiotics and vaccines are the medicines that most often cause adverse reactions in children. “There is relatively little pediatric data on adverse reactions, which can range from rashes to potentially fatal hypersensitivity”. More than 1,500 Canadian
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Several British publications including the BBC-News reported on September 7, 2005 on information presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Dublin last month showing that mental and physical exercise can help keep your brain young. In his presentation Ian Robertson, a professor of psychology at Trinity College in Dublin explained
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The February 28, 2005 Medical News Today reported on a new study that linked methylphenidate, the most widely prescribed of a class of amphetamine-like drugs used to treat ADHD, with chromosome abnormalities, occurrences associated with increased risks of cancer and other adverse health effects. Methylphenidate is the generic name for a group of drugs that
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