Still Trust Modern Medicine And Pharmaceutical Drugs ? Read This...........

[GOD IS MY DOG]

The American medical system kills 225,000 people per year—106,000 as a direct result of pharmaceutical drugs.

Every year, in the US, between 76,000 and 137,000 hospitalized patients die as a direct result of the drugs.

Every year 2.2 MILLION hospitalized patients experience serious adverse reactions to the drugs.


In 2010, not one single person in the US died as a result of taking vitamins.


The grand total of all military deaths in the history of USA, starting with the Revolutionary War, is 1,312,612.

Every 10 years of modern medical treatment causes 2,250,000 deaths.

 

[sense]

...In 2010, not one single person in the US died as a result of taking vitamins...

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/819426-overview

More than 60,000 instances of vitamin toxicity are reported annually to US poison control centers.[SUP][1, 2] [/SUP]Forty-four percent of Americans take vitamins and dietary supplements daily,[SUP][3] [/SUP]and as many as 84% of Americans consider vitamins and supplements to be safe,[SUP][4] [/SUP]a perception that increases their risk for vitamin toxicity. (See Pathophysiology and Etiology.)

1. Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, et al. 2009 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 27th Annual Report. Clin Toxicol (Phila). Dec 2010;48(10):979-1178. [Medline].
   
2. American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System. Annual Reports. Available at http://www.aapcc.org/annual-reports. Accessed Feb 1 2013.
   
3. North America, Asia lead vitamin and supplement usage. Nielsen Wire. Available at http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/north-america-asia-lead-vitamin-and-supplement-usage/. Accessed March 20, 2009.
   
4. Griffin RM, Hoffman H. Live well vitamins & supplements center. WebMD. Available at http://gnc.webmd.com/vitamin-facts. Accessed March 22, 2009.
   

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In the United States, overdose exposure to all formulations of "vitamins" was reported by 62,562 individuals in 2004 (nearly 80%(~78%, n=48,989) of these exposures were in children under the age of 6), leading to 53 "major" life-threatening outcomes and 3 deaths(2 from Vitamins - D and E; 1 from polyvitaminic type formula, with iron and no fluoride).[SUP][2][/SUP] [SUP][/SUP]


Before 1998, several deaths per year were associated with pharmaceutical iron-containing supplements, especially brightly colored, sugar-coated, high-potency iron supplements, and most deaths were children.[SUP][5][/SUP] Unit packaging restrictions on supplements with more than 30 mg of iron have since reduced deaths to 0 or 1 per year.[SUP][5][/SUP] These statistics compare with 59 confirmed deaths due to aspirin poisoning in 2003 [SUP][6][/SUP] and 147 deaths known to be associated with acetaminophen-containing products in 2003.[SUP][6]

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• 2. Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (2004). "Annual Report" (pdf). American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• 5. Tenenbein M (2005). "Unit-dose packaging of iron supplements and reduction of iron poisoning in young children". Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159 (6): 557–60. doi:10.1001/archpedi.159.6.557. PMID 15939855.
• 6. Watson WA, Litovitz TL, Klein-Schwartz W, et al. (2004). "2003 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System". Am J Emerg Med 22 (5): 335–404. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2004.06.001. PMID 15490384.

 

[Equalisation]

Disagree.

Many are suffering due to the lack of Vitamin M here.:o

 

[Agoraphobic]

Nothing against modern medicine or pharmaceuticals, BUT the way they are marketed. Doctors don't even know wtf they're prescribing or how they work. They get their information from the drug salesman. Many times, the drugs are approved only because the manufacturer has got a good senator pushing for approval without a thorough test of their side effects and they get it through clever means and political connections. Also, as opposed to the early days, drug companies were founded and led by bio-chemists who were dedicated and challenged to finding cures and remedies for their discoveries, today, these companies are headed by blokes armed with an MBAs whose measure of success is their company's bottom line. For this reason, I put my trust on herbalists and other natural treatment where possible.

Cheers!

 

[TopSage]

It is true that pharma companies are set up to make money.
Making money = kill people?

This type of literature is pushed by supplements sellers whose interest is to sell supplements like herbal drugs vitamins and various cures.
These supplements escape the watch of FDA and can be sold so long as they are safe - even if they don't work.

Every pharmaseutical drug is subject to the FDA approval process and costly clinical trials to test safety and effectiveness.
Yes, when you take viagra, it really makes it stand....otherwise not allowed to sell however the supplement market no such requirement

Because of the nterest in supplements the FDA started a department to begin testing the effectiveness....the first 3 popular herbal supplements they tested had
zero effectiveness and claims were faluse.
thus allowing them to claim Vitamin C can prevent cancer, garlic can prevent heart attacks, and so on...without furnishing any proof.