Side Effects

When Drug Side Effects Pose Real Dangers by Jane E. Brody.  The New York Times.  December 9, 2019.

Common Drugs May Be Contributing To Depression

Common Drugs May Be Contributing To Depression by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times.  June 13, 2018. 

Long-Term Use Of Antidepressants: Risk Of Withdrawal Symptoms Can Be Severe

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit by Benedict Carey and Robert Gebeloff.  The New York Times. 

Dr. Andrew Weil's New Book: Mind Over Meds; He Says We're Taking Too Many

Dr. Andrew Weil Says We're Taking Too Many Medicines by Steven Petrow.  The New York Times.  June 22, 2017.

Aspirin Bleeding Risk For Those Over 75 Higher Than Thought

Aspirin Bleed Risk In Over 75s Higher Than Thought by Sue Hughes.  Medscape.  June 14, 2017. 

Post Market Surveillance Of Drug Side Effects Has Gaps; Reporting System Has Not Kept Pace With Drug Marketing

Most Drug Makers Report Incomplete Side Effects To The FDA by Ed Silverman.  STAT.  February 23, 2016

Supplement Use Leads 23,000 People, Including Children, To the Emergency Room Each Year; Natural Does Not Necessarily Mean Safe

"Health" Supplements Send 23, 000 To Emergency Rooms In The U.S. Each Year by Gene Emery.  Reuters.  October 15, 2015. 

More Systematic Reporting Of Drug Side Effects Is Evolving

Big Data Peeps At Your Medical Records To Find Drug Problems by Nell Greenfieldboyce.  NPR>  July 21, 2014.

Side Effects, Real Or Imagined, Often Results In Noncompliance With Medications

Side Effects:  Telling The Real From The Imagined by Sumathi Reddy.  The Wall Street Journal.  July 7, 2014.

Saved By Miracle Drugs And Facing Continuing Agonizing Choices

Agonizing Choices For Lives Saved By Miracle Drugs by Geetna Ananda.  The Wall Street Journal.  January 24, 2014.

The article examines those with diseases such as pompe disease, Hurler-Schie Syndrome, Hunter Syndrome, Gaucher disease and others who are alive because of medications but now face a lifetime of difficult medical choices because of the side effects of their disease.  

Unexpected Side Effects Of Surviving Breast Cancer: A First-Person Account

Torpedo-Shaped Boobs And Hot Flashes At Dinner:  Breast Cancer survivor On the 'Embarrassing' Side Effects Of her Treatment by Sadie Whitelocks.  Mail Online.  October 22, 2013.

Drug Transporters: Key Predictor of Cardiovascular Drug Reaction

Research Looks Into Lessening The Danger Of Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs.  Medicalxpress. August 6, 2013.  

(1)  Statin myopathy results in ______________ affecting up to ______5 of statin users.

(2)  An expert quoted in the article said that "we do not fully understand the _________ necessary for optimal statin therapy."

(3)  Key predictors of patients who will likely have high statin blood levels are the ________________.

(4)  Drug transporters are the ___________________

FDA-Approved Labeling Provides Shield For Generic Drug Makers Even When Side Effects Discovered

Supreme Court:  Generic-Drug Makers Can't Be Sued Under State Law For Design Defects by Lawrence Hurley and Bill Berkrot.  Washington Post.  June 24, 2013.

(1)  About _________% of U.S. prescriptions are filled with generics.

(2)  According to the majority opinion, _______________ could not run against federals laws on labeling prescription medicines whose design has been approved by the FDA.

(3)  A 2011 Court ruling found that branded drugs are ____________ while makers of generics ________.

(4)  The Court agreed that federal law requires generic drugs to the same_______________________.

(5)  What happens under the ruling if a dangerous side effect of the medicine does not come to light until long after it was approved by the FDA and perhaps there is no branded label on the market?

Cause For Cognitive Difficulty Associated With Statins Possibly Identified

Research Reveals Possible Reason For Cholesterol-Drug Side Effects.  Medical Xpress.  May 10, 2013.

(1)  What is the "beads-on-a-string" effect?

(2)  Removal of statins results in ______________________.

(3)  Future research will involve how ________ may be involved in bead formation.

(4)  Researchers hope to develop a _______ to determine sensitivity to statins.

(5)  The researchers suspect that _______ ________ alter how people respond to statins.

(6)  What are the implications of this research for prescribing statins to children?

(7)  __________________ may give most of the benefits and prevent someofthe side effecs.

Data Mining Of Internet Search Data Provides Clues To Unforeseen Side Effects

Search Engine Data Gives Early Warning Of Drug Side Effects by Sciencenow.  Wired.  March 7, 2013.

Unreported Side Effects Of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds by John Markoff.  The New York Times.  March 6, 2013.

This "Big Data" tool, using millions of search engine results could be a new tool to spot drug side effects that may have escaped notice in clinical trials and FDA investigations.  The FDA instituted a program in 2008 that plans to monitor drug use by as many as 100 million people in the United States.