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Online: Learn About Prescription Drugs on the Web
Public Citizen (“PC”), a public interest group, has released a new edition of “Worst Pills, Best Pills,” a book analyzing at least 500 prescription drugs, and concluding that at least 200 of them may pose health risks. The group has launched a Web site, www.worstpills.org, which provides information about unsafe drugs, drug pricing and access to the entire contents of the just-published book for a subscription fee.
PC's physicians and pharmacists have been monitoring the drug industry and the FDA for more than 30 years and have a well-documented record of warning readers to avoid dangerous drugs such as Vioxx, Baycol and Rezulin ' often years before they were taken off the market for safety reasons.
The site claims to offer: reliable, no-nonsense information on more than 600 top-selling drugs, including 184 that PC recommends you not use under any circumstances; an online database searchable by drug name, by family of drugs, by disease or condition, by drug-induced disease or condition; recommendations on safer alternatives to harmful drugs; e-mail alerts about newly discovered drug dangers; analysis of pricing, advertising and other drug-related issues; monthly updates and articles; and 10 rules for safer drug use.
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