When Good Drugs Do Harm (http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/08/health/he-9609)
by Linda Marsa, latimes.com | January 8, 2001

“The nation’s medicine chest is brimming with powerful new drugs. But each year, millions of Americans become sick or even die after adverse reactions to them…

“…Yet a 1998 University of Toronto study found that roughly 100,000 Americans die of adverse drug reactions each year, and 2.1 million more are hospitalized…”

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