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The Risks of Prescription Drugs
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Description for The Risks of Prescription Drugs
Paperback. Editor(s): Light, Don. Series: Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk). Num Pages: 184 pages, figures. BIC Classification: MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254. Series: Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk). 184 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Light, Don. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MMG. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 11. Weight: 254.
Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs describes how most drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year. Serious drug reactions at home or in nursing homes would significantly raise the total. Women, older people, and people with disabilities are ... Read more
Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs describes how most drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year. Serious drug reactions at home or in nursing homes would significantly raise the total. Women, older people, and people with disabilities are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231146937
SKU
V9780231146937
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99-1
About Light
Donald W. Light is professor of social medicine and comparative health care at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a senior visiting researcher at Princeton.
Reviews for The Risks of Prescription Drugs
The Risks of Prescription Drugs explains in clear, concise, and unflinching language the consequences of ignoring the discrepancy between the drug industry's private interests and the public service we hope and naively expect from them. This book provides consumers with tools for self-defense and concerned citizens with a road map for rebalancing American medicine.
John Abramson, Harvard Medical School, ... Read more
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