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A medical expert reveals risks of the most commonly prescribed drugs-and why the drug industry doesn't want consumers to know about them.
Recent scandals involving diabetes drugs, Vioxx, and many other medications reveal the serious and undisclosed risks of some of the most commonly used prescription drugs in this country. In Before You Take That Pill, Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, a researcher and clinician at Emory University whose study on Accutane and depression made headlines, offers an inside look at the pharmaceutical industry, as well as a scientifically backed assessment of the risks of more than three hundred prescribed medications, vitamins, and supplements.
While many drugs are essential to the health of consumers, as Dr. Bremner explains, for many people, the benefits may not outweigh the potential side effects. This book contains warnings that are not on the drug labels. It also exposes tricks of the trade that demonstrate how the profit-making interests of "big pharma" may not always be in line with the safety of the public - from the corruption that exists in the drug approval process to the tactics drug companies use to encourage doctors to prescribe their products. Most important, Before You Take That Pill empowers readers by giving them sound information on specific medications so they can understand and weigh the potential risk themselves. Backed by the latest studies, as well as insight from a doctor who is in the trenches, this book should be on the shelf of every drug consumer.
About the Author
J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., is a researcher and physician at Emory University School of Medicine. Currently a professor of psychiatry and radiology, he is also the director of the Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit and the director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. His research on Accutane and depression was highly publicized and featured in USA Today. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
A medical expert reveals risks of the most commonly prescribed drugs-and why the drug industry doesn't want consumers to know about them.
Recent scandals involving diabetes drugs, Vioxx, and many other medications reveal the serious and undisclosed risks of some of the most commonly used prescription drugs in this country. In Before You Take That Pill, Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, a researcher and clinician at Emory University whose study on Accutane and depression made headlines, offers an inside look at the pharmaceutical industry, as well as a scientifically backed assessment of the risks of more than three hundred prescribed medications, vitamins, and supplements.
While many drugs are essential to the health of consumers, as Dr. Bremner explains, for many people, the benefits may not outweigh the potential side effects. This book contains warnings that are not on the drug labels. It also exposes tricks of the trade that demonstrate how the profit-making interests of "big pharma" may not always be in line with the safety of the public - from the corruption that exists in the drug approval process to the tactics drug companies use to encourage doctors to prescribe their products. Most important, Before You Take That Pill empowers readers by giving them sound information on specific medications so they can understand and weigh the potential risk themselves. Backed by the latest studies, as well as insight from a doctor who is in the trenches, this book should be on the shelf of every drug consumer.
About the Author
J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., is a researcher and physician at Emory University School of Medicine. Currently a professor of psychiatry and radiology, he is also the director of the Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit and the director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. His research on Accutane and depression was highly publicized and featured in USA Today. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Those ominous words, spoken by David J. Graham, M.D., MPH, associate director of drug safety for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on November 18, 2004, were part of congressional testimony concerning the dangers of the arthritis medication Vioxx, which had just been taken off the market because of evidence that it increased the risk of heart attack. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Those ominous words, spoken by David J. Graham, M.D., MPH, associate director of drug safety for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on November 18, 2004, were part of congressional testimony concerning the dangers of the arthritis medication Vioxx, which had just been taken off the market because of evidence that it increased the risk of heart attack. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
life extension, mini mental status exam, vomiting tendon, trouble hypotension, slurred disease, rhabdomyolysis pregnancy, glucose tensives, male sexual thinking, ommended characteristics, complaints esophagitis, respiratory elevations, hypersensitivity feeding, kidney headache, stroke palpitations, death weight gain, tension rash, driving addictions, weight loss numbness, kidney ulcers, viral infection pregnancy, tension diarrhea, vomiting impairment, muscle liver damage, ment dysmenorrhea, arthritis nausea Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reasons Benign Serious, Allergic Allergy, Orthostatic Heart, New York Times, Alternative Medicines, The Bottom Line, Women's Health Initiative, Side Effects, Decreased Suicidal Allergic, African Americans, Pregnancy Headaches, Stomach Diarrhea, None None, Allergy Sleepiness, National Institutes of Health, British Medical Journal, Hamilton Depression Scale, The Lancet, Growth Seizures, Drug Use Common, Increased Heart, Upper Potassium Pregnancy, Blood Heart Heart, Recommended Daily Allowance, North America Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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