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Potentially Deadly Drug Interactions Found Mining FDA Complaint Bin (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of people are sent to the hospital each year from adverse drug-drug interactions that are difficult to predict and even trickier to track. To get around the problem, a team of researchers (working with the journalists at The Chicago Tribune) created a computer model to create side-effect profiles for prescription drugs. Then, they mined a massive database of drug-reaction complaints sent to the Food and Drug Administration, as well as 380,000 electronic health records. The results of the analysis so far suggest that four drug combinations "including the combination of the common antibiotic, ceftriaxone, with the over-the-counter heartburn medication, Prevacid (lansoprazole) may cause a potentially fatal heart rhythm.
First po.... urg... heart attack!
to an article might be useful
Where is the link to the article? Which drugs? What method did they use?
A linky might be nice...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
The most deadly thing in the world and you're eating it for breakfast! Just follow this link... right..... ah frack guys! common!
Second front-page history without a link, just this week. WTF?
Slashdot "editor" - and I use that term loosely - BeauHD is new here. Thus we must cut him a limited amount of slack which to hang himself with...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Didn't RTFA, because there wasn’t one.
"The results suggest that four common drug combinations may cause a potentially fatal heart rhythm." ... Um, which are? May be important in here.
They already blocked the link! Blocked the link!
The repukianz that rule this site are already keeping us from reading more.
Expect to? No, they already did.
Republicans hate knowledge. That is why their kind refuses to provide a link.
TFA: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
to block this since it helps the people.
Expect to? No, they already blocked it. This site has become so conservative since the recent buy-out.
I did some research, and here is an article about this topic that the management of /. decided to block:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/potentially-deadly-drug-interactions-found-mining-fda-complaint-bin/
Apparently the desktop version has a link to arstechnica, but it does not show on mobile.
I don't see any reason why those Tepublicans went so far in trying to censor that. The article is a poorly written mess with no facts. It looks like those pukianz would support it.
This BeauDufus seems to love ignorance and hate knowledge. That is solid evidence he is a Republican.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/potentially-deadly-drug-interactions-found-mining-fda-complaint-bin/
It's more of a "color commentary" story than a solid content story, but this appears to be the missing link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/druginteractions/ct-drug-interactions-signal-detection-met-20160209-story.html
Dear FDA,
I have been prescribed this combination of drugs which I believe to be .... [Eeep! Aaack! Gurgle ........ Thud!]
Have gnu, will travel.
...the interactions claimed they thought some of the complaints might have been for them.
I think a more general assumption should be. If you take more drugs, you risk more side effects, some severe. I personally think doctors over treat people in general.
Some physical problem do not always require a prescription. I think you need to weigh the side effects of drugs over the severity of the condition. I am a diabetic and I finally cut down on medication and focused on diet because the drugs caused their own set of issues.
The original scientific paper can be found at http://link.springer.com/artic...
and the supplementary material can be found at http://static-content.springer...
Thousands of people are sent to the hospital each year from adverse drug-drug interactions that are difficult to predict and even trickier to track. ... The results of the analysis so far suggest that four drug combinations .. may cause a potentially fatal heart rhythm.
There are bigger heart issues out there.
Long term stress, for example, has been shown to increase the rate of plaque formation and heart attacks in mice (Roth, 2015, Chronic intermittent mental stress promotes atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability, myocardial infarction and sudden death in mice).
Of course, this is not a huge surprise, the fact that long term stress can lead to health issues has been known since the 1950's.
Given how many entities out there (businesses, government, lawyers, and so forth) are creating extended periods of stress for people, this is doubtless a much more significant problem (though even more "difficult to predict and even trickier to track").
Whether it's shipping companies giving one the run-around when trying to get insurance payment for a damaged shipment, or bank refusing to admit that an account created in one's name is fraudulent (to describe a few that I've personally experienced), there are lots of businesses out there doing irresponsible stuff that creates a lot of stress for people. Let's get businesses in general to be ethical and responsible with respect to how they interact with the public, before we worry about obscure drug interactions.
If we could get even just the lawyers to be ethical, that would be a huge step forward from a societal health perspective. Instead of aiding and abetting politicians in doing stuff that steps on people, they could serve as another badly-needed check and balance on the government.