Archive for October, 2006

Drug Reactions Put 700,000 in ER Annually

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

The number of deaths due to use of pharmaceutical drugs annually in the U.S. was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2000 to be about 100,000. However, studies had not looked at the numbers of those who are treated as outpatients for adverse drug “events” and, supposedly live to [...]

Self-education best bet for Heart Health

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

The father of young friends had chest pains one night recently and talked to his doctor the next morning, who promptly sent him in for the usual stress tests for heart health.
“The cardio tests all came out fine,” they piped. Dad was in fine shape.
“Don’t be [...]

US health system scores 66 (D grade)

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

“Once upon a time, it was taken as an article of faith among most Americans (most of the world, I will add) that the U.S. health care system was simply the best in the world.”
So begins a Scorecard on U.S. health system performance in 2006. And the scores aren’t good news. Across 37 indicators of [...]

 

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