San Diego, CA July 20, 2015
Facts and Figures on New Pharmaceutical Drugs – Are They Really Safe?
- New prescription drugs have a 1 in 5 chance of causing serious reactions after they’ve been approved
- Doctors recommend not taking new drugs for at least five years
- Even properly prescribed drugs can cause about 1.9 million hospitalizations each year
- 840,000 hospitalized patients are given drugs that cause serious adverse reactions, total of 2.74 million serious adverse drug reactions
- About 128,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them
- Prescription drugs are ranked 4th, with stroke, as a leading cause of death
- The European Commission estimates adverse reactions from prescriptions cause 200,000 deaths
- 80% of prescription drugs are generic
- 170 million Americans take a prescription drug
- Over the past 35 years, it has been found that only 11 to 15 percent of newly approved drugs provide significant advantages for patients
- Between 2002 and 2011, reviews in France, Canada, and the Netherlands found that only 8% of 946 new products were clinically superior, down from 11 to 15 percent in previous decade
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Source: http://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/new-prescription-drugs-major-health-risk-few-offsetting-advantages
