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[Some of the 120,000 deaths (USA only) under Allopathy every year, plus those killed by cancer and AIDS chemotherapy (see: AZT, Viramune (nevirapine). Vaccine deaths are here.]
See: Suicide Vaccine deaths
Raptiva deaths have been reported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency, the FDA's counterpart for the EU (European Union). The Raptiva deaths were apparently due to PML (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy), a devastating and rare brain infection.
[2009 Nov] South Korean Teenager Jumps From Apartment Window After Taking Tamiflu[2005] Alarming deaths of Tamiflu patients - FDA to investigate The U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating the deaths of 12 children in Japan who took Roche's flu-fighting drug Tamiflu. The FDA said the 12 deaths it was reviewing included one suicide, four cases of sudden death and four cases of cardiac arrest. There also were single cases of pneumonia, asphyxiation and acute pancreatitis......It seems the most alarming psychiatric events included two cases in which a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old jumped out of the second-floor windows of their homes after receiving two doses of Tamiflu.
[2009 May] Drugmakers May Limit Doses, Add Warnings for Tylenol Acetaminophen overdose was linked to 458 deaths and 26,000 hospitalizations annually from 1990 to 2001
[2009 April] Pfizer to pay £50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment Eleven of the children died and many more, it is alleged, later suffered serious side-effects ranging from organ failure to brain damage.
[2009 Feb Minocin] Teen dies after taking acne pills
[Feb 2008] 22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor Dr. Dennis Mangano, the study's researcher, said during the program that 22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market when he first published his study in January 2006
[Nov 2007 Tamiflu] FDA seeks warnings on flu vaccines Twenty-five patients under age 21 have died while taking the drug, most of them in Japan. Five deaths resulted from children "falling from windows or balconies or running into traffic." Children's Deaths Caused from ADD & ADHD Drugs[June 2006] Common asthma inhalers cause up to 80 percent of asthma-related deaths,
[Media Sept 2005] Acne drug blamed for son's death
[Media Feb 2005] 20 international reports of sudden death in patients taking ADDERALL
[Media Oct 21, 2004 Roaccutane] Student's suicide linked to acne drug
[Media Nov 5, 2004 Venlaflaxine] Girl died after taking one pill for depression
[Media Japan 2002] Parents sue Kowa over drug death of woman with cold
[Media Nov 2002] PAIN KILLERS Toni, 17, dies from taking too many paracetamol
[Media Aug 2001] Cures That Kill (Baycol)
[Media 2001 Benzodiazepines] Drug 'killing more than heroin' In Scotland in 1998 - the most recent figures available - 114 people died from heroin and morphine overdoses. But 151 died from taking benzodiazepines. In England and Wales between 1990 and 1996, 1,623 people overdosed on heroin, morphine and other opiates while 1,810 died from benzodiazepines.
[Media aug 2001] Drug scientists 'put profits before lives' (cancer vaccine & anti-cholesterol drug Baycol)
[Media UK, 1996] Meningitis clusters linked to antibiotics
[Media, Pill--death] A bitter pill to swallow (Femodene)
[Media 1996 Steroid-chickenpox death] Parents sue over stress of death (prednisolone)
Eleven deaths among UK Vioxx users
[Media--drugs] How a
New Policy Led to Seven Deadly Drugs
[Media--drugs] Serzone: Company hasn't published study of
effect on children.
[Media--drugs] REZULIN: Fast-Track Approval
and a Slow Withdrawal
[Media--drugs] RELENZA: Official Asks If One Day Less of Flu
Is Worth It
[Media--drugs] REDUX: Unheeded Warnings on Lethal Diet
Pill
[Media--drugs] RAXAR:Warning on
Label Omits Deaths
[Media--drugs] DURACT: Painkiller Posed Risk of Damage to
Liver
[Media--drugs] LOTRONEX: Officer Foresaw Deadly Effects
[Media--drugs] PROPULSID:
A Heartburn Drug, Now Linked to Children's Deaths
[Media--drugs] POSICOR: 143 Sudden Deaths Did Not Stop
Approval
[Media] Suicides linked with acne drug (roaccutane)
[Media] Father fights acne drug firm after sons suicide (Roaccutane)