Drugs and Adverse Drug Reactions
- 15 April 1998
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 279 (15) , 1216-1217
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.279.15.1216
Abstract
Physicians can hardly pick up a medical journal or a newspaper today without reading about some new medication, and how it promises to completely change the course of a disease or relieve some troublesome symptom. Indeed, the wonders of pharmacology are numerous. It is clear, for example, that after a myocardial infarction patients will live longer if they take β-blockers 1 and that patients with congestive heart failure live longer and feel better when they take angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.2 However, medications are a double-edged sword.Keywords
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