Over dose : the case against the drug companies : prescription drugs, side effects, and your health / Jay S. Cohen.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam,
[2001], ©2001.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 318 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The race to the bottom
- How drug-company policies harm people
- How drug-company policies cause problems for 50 to 75 percent of patients taking Prozac
- When new drugs are approved, the experiment is just beginning, and you may be part of it : Viagra
- How drug-company policies harm women
- Why 50 to 75 percent of people quit taking their cholesterol-lowering medications
- Why 50-75 percent of people quit taking their medications for high blood pressure
- Why seniors are at the greatest risk
- How the drug companies slant drug research, limit information to doctors and consumers, and secure high profits
- What the drug companies must do to reverse the side-effect epidemic-- but will they?
- What's wrong with the FDA? And what can be done about it?
- What the FDA shouldn't do : why we need an independent medication safety monitoring system
- Doctors, drugs, and patients
- How to avoid side effects and use medications safely.