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Prescription for disaster. .(Side effects from prescription medicines. )(Brief Article)
According to the results of a new study, side effects from prescription medicines plague one in four patients--and when side effects do surface, most doctors fail to act. The findings sound an alarm to the millions of Americans who take prescription drugs each year.
Among the side effects noted by researchers, 13 percent were serious, such as low blood pressure or internal bleeding; and 39 percent were preventable, such as cases where a drug was given to a patient even though he or she was known to be allergic to it.
In cases where side effects were ...
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