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From the Journal of American Medicine came the disturbing news, in late April 1998, that adverse drug reactions are the 4th leading cause of death in the United States.(using 1994 figures.)

Researchers were shocked at the number of deaths between 76,000 and 137,000 caused by drugs.The numbers were even more disconcerting because cases were excluded by the researchers where drugs were misprescribed or wrongly used.About 2.2 million serious but nonlethal drugs reaction occur yearly also in U.S.

Another shocking fact is that adverse drug reactions are rarely reported.Physicians are asked by the FDA to file reports,but most doctors are too busy to do this.In 1994 the FDA received only 3,500 fatal drug reaction reports.