What Doctors Don't Tell YouOften, the short-term clinical trials, which also often involve only small numbers of ‘healthy’ patients don’t uncover the worst side-effects, which then only emerge when a drug is taken by the public at large.
When your doctor reaches for his prescription pad, possibly the most important question you can ask is the age of the drug he’s about to prescribe you. If it’s brand-new, as Nancy Reagan once put it, just say no.
New drugs seem to be getting more toxic. Since 1997, more drugs have been withdrawn because of toxicity than in any other era in the history of modern medicine.
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I recently spent five days in my local hospital after fracturing my left wrist and dislocating the radius [the bone on the thumb side of the forearm that makes up part of the wrist joint].
The Medicines Control Agency (MCA), the UK government body that licenses new drugs, opened its doors to the public for the first time recently but failed to invite most of the public health groups ...
Consumers should receive more information about drugs and their potential side effects, a report released by the National Consumer Council said. ...
Your chances of suffering a serious reaction to a drug while in hospital stand at around 6.5 per cent; worse, 42 per cent of serious reactions are caused by staff error. ...
