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The difficulty is knowing if the symptoms are part of the illness or the drug treatment.
I remember reading a book by a Canadian guy called illitch years ago about disease causes by the drugs administered to people.and how many hospital admissions are caused by medication
everyone seems to accept street drugs are bad
but talk of pharma drugs and side effects are brushed under the carpet
Its not something drug companies like to talk about People often don't read the leaflets because they are so worrying
just look at the list of possible side effects of common drugs and it will scare the hell out of you.
I only take what i need to take, But that seems to be growing
Bad reactions to medicines lead to one million people a year being admitted to hospital
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Last updated at 1:50 PM on 3rd June 2011
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Bad reactions to drugs have reached epidemic levels, according to a group of doctors and scientists.
Around one in 15 hospital admissions each year, more than a million patients, is due to adverse drug reactions, says the Safer Medicines Trust, based on official figures.
They say the current system is failing and animal testing of drugs is exposing patients to ‘dangerous’ treatments.
Measured dosage: Britons swallow millions of tablets on doctor's advice
The trust, which campaigns for alternative ways of testing the safety of medicines, said the drug industry is over-dependent on animal testing.
In an open letter to the Prime Minister and Health Secretary, published in The Lancet, it said animal testing has failed to protect patients.
Six young men were left in intensive care by a trial drug in 2006 which was ‘demonstrably safe in monkeys at doses nearly 500 times higher than those that nearly proved fatal to the volunteers’, the trust said.
It wants new technologies based on human biology to be used instead, after an official assessment of their fitness for purpose.
A spokesman for the Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency said: ‘It is very important to recognise that at present there are no laboratory methods available to totally replace animal testing of medicines.’
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I remember reading a book by a Canadian guy called illitch years ago about disease causes by the drugs administered to people.and how many hospital admissions are caused by medication
everyone seems to accept street drugs are bad
but talk of pharma drugs and side effects are brushed under the carpet
Its not something drug companies like to talk about People often don't read the leaflets because they are so worrying
just look at the list of possible side effects of common drugs and it will scare the hell out of you.
I only take what i need to take, But that seems to be growing
Bad reactions to medicines lead to one million people a year being admitted to hospital
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 1:50 PM on 3rd June 2011
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Bad reactions to drugs have reached epidemic levels, according to a group of doctors and scientists.
Around one in 15 hospital admissions each year, more than a million patients, is due to adverse drug reactions, says the Safer Medicines Trust, based on official figures.
They say the current system is failing and animal testing of drugs is exposing patients to ‘dangerous’ treatments.
Measured dosage: Britons swallow millions of tablets on doctor's advice
The trust, which campaigns for alternative ways of testing the safety of medicines, said the drug industry is over-dependent on animal testing.
In an open letter to the Prime Minister and Health Secretary, published in The Lancet, it said animal testing has failed to protect patients.
Six young men were left in intensive care by a trial drug in 2006 which was ‘demonstrably safe in monkeys at doses nearly 500 times higher than those that nearly proved fatal to the volunteers’, the trust said.
It wants new technologies based on human biology to be used instead, after an official assessment of their fitness for purpose.
A spokesman for the Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency said: ‘It is very important to recognise that at present there are no laboratory methods available to totally replace animal testing of medicines.’
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1393745/Bad-reactions-medicines-lead-million-people-year-admitted-hospital.html#ixzz1OIYWhtEG
but rat poison is a bit of a misnomer as it is not actually poisoned by warfarin but bleeds to death due to its effects
I have taken medication in the past that had bad side effects, luckily it was short term but i sympathise with you
Im just on Metformin and a statin so I have no noticeable side effects noticeable being the operative word