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The Fourth Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

by on Friday, May 25th, 2012 | 2 Comments

The FDA has an abbre­vi­a­tion for them – ADRs.

ADRs are Adverse Drug Reac­tions from pre­scribed med­ica­tions. They’re a hot topic of research and debate within the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion, other agen­cies that reg­u­late drug devel­op­ment, and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal firms.

Why the inter­est in ADRs?

Because they’re so com­mon.  The FDA itself says that more than 3 mil­lion seri­ous neg­a­tive reac­tions to pre­scrip­tion drugs occur every year.

Deaths from ADRs – more than 100,000 per year – rank pre­scrip­tion drug use as the 4th lead­ing cause of death in the United States – ahead of lung dis­ease, dia­betes, AIDS, or pneumonia.

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2 Responses to “The Fourth Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.”

  1. George Blomme says:
    May 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Ron–
    All I can get out of this is the pre­scrip­tion drugs can cause a lot of deaths or at least seri­ous neg­a­tive reac­tions. There is no link (“hyper­link” to more infor­ma­tion.
    George

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    • Ron Lavine, D.C. says:
      May 29, 2012 at 6:40 am

      The addi­tional infor­ma­tion you are look­ing for can be found by click­ing the link con­nected to the words “FDA itself” in the 4th para­graph. Thanks for your care­ful read­ing, George.

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