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WHY DO PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS INJURE AND KILL SO MANY PEOPLE?Are We the Real "Guinea-pigs"?PLEASE NOTE: the full and most recently updated version of this article now exists at http://medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/pharmaceutical-drugs-injure-kill-millions-of-people.html![]() INTRODUCTION: Drugs and other Medical Treatments Injure and Kill Millions of People:In 2004 a team of scientists reported: "A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good... The total number of iatrogenic deaths [deaths from medical treatment]... is 783,936 [people per year in the USA]. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States." (Full article here) Similarly, in 1994 a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that modern medicine causes 180,000 deaths each year in the USA. (1) Most of these are caused by prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. A 1998 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that in 1994 in the USA, "2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious Adverse Drug Reactions and 106,000 had fatal Adverse Drug Reactions, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death." (2) In other words, modern medicine is officially considered to be a leading cause of death... ![]() PLEASE NOTE: the full and most recently updated version of this article now exists at http://medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/pharmaceutical-drugs-injure-kill-millions-of-people.htmlHome Page - for other articles Related Articles:
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