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Shelfari edited the description of Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health Thursday, August 13 2009.
In late 1999, a headline in the New York Times read "Too Much of Good Thing? Doctor Challenges Drug Manual." The article described Dr. Jay S. Cohen's new report maintaining that the recommended doses in the Physicians' Desk Reference are too high for many people and are causing a slew of unnecessary adverse reactions, "ranging from dizziness and nausea all the way to death." Drug reactions in hospitals are among the nation's leading causes of death, killing more than one hundred thousand Americans every year. What's more, the "side effect epidemic" causes many people-as high as 50 percent of those on blood-pressure medication-to discontinue treatment. The problem, reports Dr. Cohen in this vital book, stems not only from poor research on the part of the drug companies, but from a deliberate effort to create easy, one-size-fits-all dosages that both appeal to doctors and produce artificially inflated effectiveness statistics. In Over Dose , Dr. Cohen does more than expose drug company misdeeds-he shows consumers exactly how to monitor and control their own drug intake. He offers practical information on the potential dangers and safe uses of the nation's bestselling drugs, including Prozac, Claritin, Viagra, Lipitor, and a wide range of estrogen-replacement, anti-inflammatory, and blood-pressure medications.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health Thursday, July 23 2009.
- Added a contributor: Jay S. Cohen: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health Friday, July 17 2009.
- "I WAS IN MY RECLINER, headset on, writing this book, when the telephone rang."
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