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...University of Florida Teaching Hospital at Gainesville. They found that 177, or about 3%, of the admissions were due to drug-induced or exacerbated illnesses, many of them serious. Fifty of the illnesses were considered "moderate" by hospital authorities; 116, or nearly two-thirds, were severe or potentially life-threaten ing. Eleven proved fatal. Interaction between drugs (prescribed in some cases by different physicians) accounted for 56 of the admissions. But 121 were caused by a single drug. Aspirin alone accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Damaging Drugs | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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