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The research institute of Safe Medical Practice (USA), having analyzed the official statistics of quantity of death, invalidism and hospitalization of Americans for the period from 1998 to 2005 in the USA, has come to a conclusion, that all of them are caused by taking medicines.
Food and Drug Administration has named this situation, when taking this or that medical preparation has led to a death, disablement, hospitalization, to patrimonial defects or has demanded intensive therapy, as serious unfavorable reaction.

Statistics shows, that from 1998 till 2005 in the USA has taken place 467.8 thousand such incidents. And, if in 1998 there were 34.9 thousand of them, in 2005 - already almost 89.9 thousand. In turn, for the same period the number of lethal outcomes has grown in 2.7 times - from 5.5 thousand up to 15.1 thousand. Experts believe that the reason of such situation became a greater amount of medicines, prescribed by doctors - hence, the growth of side-effects.

In total, originators of such states of emergency were 1489 drugs, 51 from were responsible for 43.6 % of all incidents. The most dangerous appeared to be anesthetics and medicines which are used to support immune system.