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Common drugs cause 1,200 heart attack

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Common drugs 'cause 1,200 heart attack deaths a year'
Millions of patients who take drugs prescribed for ailments from sore throats to indigestion may risk a heart attack, researchers have warned.

The drugs, including antibiotics, indigestion remedies and treatments for mental illness, could cause up to 1,200 heart attack deaths a year in the UK and 15,000 in Europe and the US, the researchers said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=637445
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Hello all

This is a news for you.

Best wishes.
 
Caution.

"These drugs are vital treatments for serious conditions in many cases, so it is essential that patients should not stop taking them on their own initiative. If they are concerned they should talk to their doctor."
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And.....

The British Heart Foundation said the findings should be treated with caution. Professor Peter Weissberg, the medical director, said: "It has been known for many years that certain drugs change the heart rhythm ... However, this is still a rare phenomenon, and not all of the deaths reported in this study can clearly be attributed to the effects of the drugs.
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BJ
 
Kumar said:
Still something can be there in rest.:)
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Yep. Something definitely can be there. ;)

I bet homeopathy has next to no sideeffects compared to medicine... wonder why that is...
 
Sounds like a Post hoc, ergo procter....

e.g. 200,000 people have heart attacks every year after eating bread.
 
Alkatran said:
Yep. Something definitely can be there. ;)

I bet homeopathy has next to no sideeffects compared to medicine... wonder why that is...
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Actually, homeopaths claim that there are serious side effects for their nostrums: to quote Homeopath Syed
Our latest confirmation proving is with Anacradium Orintale-200, Dr.Asad Zaheer took a dose TDS daily and upon 10th day when he woke up he was covered with papules and pustules all over the body. . The eruption followed the path of veins everywhere. It took 21 days to anti-dote it and restore health.
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The odd thing is that these sort of effects only seem to be observed by homeopaths. Under double blinded conditions they don't appear. ;)
 
Nothing is ODD. Something positive or negative, can be there everywhare on nature's imbalances. Moreover under too many & too much conditions, it can be neligible.:(
 
Kumar said:
Hello all

This is a news for you.

Best wishes.
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No - its not news to medical practitioners, Kumar. Attempts to quantify the problem help us get a truer reflection of the clinical relevance and context, and understand the risk-benefit issues involved with treatments.
These are concepts you will never ever understand.
 
Kumar said:
Nothing is ODD. Something positive or negative, can be there everywhare on nature's imbalances. Moreover under too many & too much conditions, it can be neligible.:(
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So you are happy that homeopathic remedies are supposed to cause horrible side effects, are you?
 
Mojo said:
Actually, homeopaths claim that there are serious side effects for their nostrums: to quote Homeopath Syed The odd thing is that these sort of effects only seem to be observed by homeopaths. Under double blinded conditions they don't appear. ;)
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That's why I said "next to no". I'd heard of side effects before (and expected it due to nocebo anyways). The thing is, since it's WATER it can't really hurt you much.
 
Alkatran said:
That's why I said "next to no". I'd heard of side effects before (and expected it due to nocebo anyways). The thing is, since it's WATER it can't really hurt you much.
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Ah, but the true-believers are very happy to shout the evils of real medicine from the roof-tops, but quietly think implicitly accept homeopathic remedies can have all sorts of nasty effects while not needing to be monitored, supervised or regulated.

Any sane person knows it's all nonsense, but it is an interesting insight into their essentially hypocritical and irrational mindset that they should think like this.
 
Do you want to tell me that these types of adversities can't be possible in modern durgs & these are 'absolute' (free from imperfection)?-

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Alike this, how many of your durgs absorb fluid from GIT? Can this absorption of fluid cause intestine mucus to become thick & cause mucus blocks in intestines?
 
Kumar said:
Do you want to tell me that these types of adversities can't be possible in modern durgs & these are 'absolute' (free from imperfection)?-
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Noone has said that. In the case of TRS and homeopathy, I'd say "not working, at all" is a pretty big imperfection.
 
Alkatran said:
That's why I said "next to no". I'd heard of side effects before (and expected it due to nocebo anyways). The thing is, since it's WATER it can't really hurt you much.
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But it's something to bear in mind next time Kumar witters on about "least adversities." He can't have it both ways: if he accepts homeopathy's claims to have real positive effects, he must also accept the "adversities."

After all, the evidence for one is as good as the evidence for the other...
 
Kumar,

My sister has just had triple coronary artery bypass grafts (just three hours ago). Fortunately, the operation was successful. She could have had a fatal reaction to a drug given but she didn't. Without the operation and the required drugs she would be a sitting time bomb. For the past seven years, since her first heart attack, she has been on heart medication and insulin for her diabetes. Without them she would not be alive today to have her bypass operation.

You have to put these things in perspective.

BillyJoe
 
BillyJoe said:
My sister has just had triple coronary artery bypass grafts (just three hours ago). Fortunately, the operation was successful.
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I'm very pleased to hear that your sister's operation has been successful. My very best wishes for her continuing good health.

Rolfe.
 
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