The risks of prescription drugs /

Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions.The Risks of Prescription Drugs de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Light, Donald, Jr., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk.
Columbia/SSRC book.
Temas:
United States. > Food and Drug Administration.
United States. > Food and Drug Administration
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Risk management.
Drugs > Risk factors.
Drugs > Side effects.
Risk assessment.
Drug Industry > standards
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Medication Errors > prevention & control
Prescription Drugs > standards
Risk Assessment
Médicaments > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Gestion du risque.
Médicaments > Facteurs de risque.
Médicaments > Effets secondaires.
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Risk assessment
Drugs > Side effects
Pharmaceutical policy
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bearing the risks of prescription drugs / Donald Light
  • The Food and Drug Administration : inadequate protection from serious risks / Donald Light
  • The commercialization of medical decisions : physicians and patients at risk / Howard Brody
  • Pharmaceuticals and the medicalization of social life / Allan Horwitz
  • Medicalization and risk scares : the case of menopause and HRT / Cheryl Stults and Peter Conrad
  • Toward safer prescribing and better drugs / Donald Light.

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