Adverse Drug Reactions

Study shows adverse drug events reported to the FDA have significantly increased

Published in Drug Week, September 28th, 2007

A new study shows the number of drug-therapy related deaths and injuries reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nearly tripled between 1998 and 2005.

A researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues reviewed serious and fatal drug events reported in that eight-year period to the FDA by consumers, health professionals and drug manufacturers, and found that serious adverse drug events increased 2.6-fold, from about 35,000 to nearly 89,000, and adverse drug-related deaths increased 2.7-fold, from about 5,500 to more than 15,000.

The study is reported in the Sept. 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of...

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Source: Drug Week (2007-09-28)

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