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Dramatic Increase In Medication Injuries And Side Effects

The number of people treated in United States’ hospitals for illnesses and injuries from taking medicines jumped 52 percent between 2004 and 2008 – from 1.2 million to 1.9 million – according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These medication side effects and injuries resulted from taking […]

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Acupuncture For Pain Is No Better Than Placebo And Can Lead To Serious Side Effects

Although acupuncture is commonly used for pain control, some questions remain about its effectiveness and safety. Investigators from the Universities of Exeter & Plymouth (Exeter, UK) and the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, South Korea) critically evaluated systematic reviews of acupuncture as a treatment of pain in order to explore this question. Reporting in […]

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Tardive Dysphoria Is A Potential Long-Term Side-Effect Of Antidepressant Medication

In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, a new important side effect of antidepressant drugs is described: tardive dysphoria. Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) may be related to inadequate dosing of antidepressants or antidepressant tolerance. Alternatively, there are reasons to believe that antidepressant treatment itself may contribute to a chronic depressive syndrome.

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Drugs Encased In Nanoparticles Travel To Tumors On The Surface Of Immune-System Cells

Clinical trials using patients’ own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only if the patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply rapidly, and those drugs have life-threatening side effects. Now a team of MIT engineers has devised a way to deliver […]

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Researcher Concludes That Pharmaceuticals Are A Market For Producing ‘Lemons’ And Serious Harm

The pharmaceutical industry is a “market for lemons,” a market in which the seller knows much more than the buyer about the product and can profit from selling products less effective and less safe than consumers are led to believe, according to an analysis by sociologist Donald Light that will be presented at the 105th […]

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