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"The rate of adverse events with the hypericum extract was in the range of the placebo group but lower than that of the (drug) group," researchers noted. A Rich Cast of Plant Chemicals There are many active ingredients in St. John's Wort, but for a long time the one believed to be responsible for the herb's antidepressant action was hypericum. But the plant actually contains dozens of active components (including chloro-genic acid, flavonoids, and xanthones). More recently, researchers have focused on hyperforin, another active ingredient in St. John's Wort. " - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"See the inset "Adverse Events Reported for Long-Term Usage of Coenzyme Qi0 in 5,000 Patients" below for a summary of reported adverse reactions from 5,000 patients on coenzyme Q10 therapy. Drug Interactions In all our combined years of experience with coenzyme Qi0, we have seen only a very few major drug interactions. This is remarkable, especially since we use coenzyme Qiq in combination with a vast array of cardiac drugs. We have already discussed the effects of some cholesterol-lowering drugs to deplete patient's coenzyme Qiq levels, and other drug interactions have also been reported." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The considerable interindividual variation observed following these therapies, in terms of lipid response, cardiovascular event response, and adverse events is bringing considerable attention to the concept of more targeted therapies based on genetic information. Pharmacogenomics (pharmacogenetics) involves the search and identification of genetic variants that influence response to drug therapy. Over the past decade, some progress has been made in our understanding of the variability associated with statin therapy [12]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"As the time for the hearing grew near, the FDA's Division of Drug Risk Evaluation issued a lengthy in-house memorandum analyzing reports received concerning "Psychiatric adverse events Associated with Drug Treatment of ADHD:"4 The most important finding of this review is that signs and symptoms of psychosis or mania, particularly hallucinations, can occur in some patients with no identifiable risk factors, at usual doses of any of the drugs currently used to treat ADHD." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "When I tabulated the results, it became apparent that there were strong signals indicating that Ritalin was causing many psychiatric adverse events. When addressing the 1998 conference (Breggin, "Risks and Mechanism of Action of Stimulants," 1998), I warned about an unexpectedly high number of reports of stimulant-induced psychosis, aggression, and suicidality." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Under the warnings section, the FDA-approved label for Rebetron contains the following bold-letter statement:5 Psychiatric Severe psychiatric adverse events, including depression, psychoses, aggressive behavior, hallucinations, violent behavior (suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, suicides), and rare instances of homicidal ideation have occurred during combination REBETOL/INTRON A therapy, both in patients with and without a previous psychiatric disorder. I have been consulted in suicide cases involving prisoners who were given this drug for experimental research." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"This decision was probably related to the associated adverse events. Topiramate, however, is still available as an antiepileptic drug. D. Medications Approved for Long-Term Use 1. SlBUTRAMINE Sibutramine was approved in 1997 for long-term treatment of obesity. Sibutramine is a combination serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Unlike the fenflura-mine-phentermine combination, sibutramine does not stimulate the release of either of these neurotransmitters, and this may be why valvular heart lesions have not been associated with the use of this drug [92]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Government Accountability Office (GAO) is correct and only 1 percent to 10 percent of the actual adverse events are reported and "are unlikely to be representative of the much larger number of unreported events," then the numbers of adverse events associated with Prozac should be substantially higher." But is it really necessary to continue to calculate the ever-increasing number of adverse drug events associated with Prozac or any of the SSRI/SNRI antidepressants? After all, how many adverse reports of suicides and attempted suicides does it take to get the FDA's attention?" - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Orlistat is minimally absorbed; therefore, any systemic adverse events would be expected to be negligible. Orlistat should be used with a diet that is less than 30% energy from fat to prevent adverse side effects that include oily stools, oily spotting, flatus with discharge, fecal urgency, and fecal incontinence [105]. These events are due to the drug inhibiting fat absorption rather than a direct effect of the drug itself. Patients should be advised to maintain a low-fat diet while using the medication, because these side effects increase with diets that have over 30% energy from fat." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Initial studies reported weight loss in the range of 6% to 10%. adverse events in these trials included paresthesias, somnolence, difficulty concentrating, and difficulty with memory. Several large studies were terminated early because a time-release formula was developed and it was hoped this new preparation would minimize the adverse event profile of the drug." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In the experiment, patients taking Bextra and a similar pain reliever called paracoxib had "an excess of serious adverse events, including death." At the same time, the FDA had determined that Bextra was no miracle worker when it came to relieving pain. The regulators said in the confidential papers that Pharmacia's studies had shown that Bextra relieved pain no better than cheap medicines like ibuprofen. That was when Pharmacia turned to the advertising firm Omnicom and its research partner, Scirex." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"This preclinical and neuroimaging data may suggest biological plausibility for the suspected psychiatric adverse events associated with isotretinoin. From isotretinoin's initial marketing in 1982 through August 2004, 4,992 spontaneous reports of psychiatric disturbances associated with using isotretinoin in patients in the United States have been submitted to the FDA. Once studies were published and word of the results reached the popular press, I was contacted by a number of people who had developed psychiatric side effects after taking Accutane." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The firm's executives described an example in which a "key message" to be incorporated into published articles was a description that the drug was "well tolerated, with the majority of adverse events mild to moderate in nature." In other words, the risks of the medicine were nothing to worry about. In a broader sense, the ghostwriting was a form of the timeworn corporate public relations strategy known to marketers as the third party technique." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The authors praised both drugs, stating that they cause "significantly fewer serious gastrointestinal adverse events than does treatment with non-selective NSAIDs." I pulled the "Dear Healthcare Provider" letter out of my files to make sure that my recollection of its wording was accurate. It was. After going over the language very carefully, I realized that this review article had taken drug salesmanship into new territory." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Targ and Sicher's results were vindicated a year later, when a study entitled MAHI (Mid-America Heart Institute) of the effect of remote intercessory prayer for hospitalized cardiac patients over 12 months showed patients had fewer adverse events and a shorter hospital stay if they were prayed for. In this study, however, the 'intercessors' were not gifted healers; to qualify to take part, they simply needed to believe in God and the fact that He responds when you pray to Him to heal someone who is ill." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"John Curtis, a psychologist and expert on the neurobiology of resilience (which he defines as good adaptation in the face of adverse events) at the University of Rochester, explained to me what might have transpired in Rex's brain. "There's no doubt that there were chemical and structural changes that occurred in Rex's brain as a result of the some of the positive things that he was exposed to when he got off crack and into treatment. The chemical changes were introduced by the Haldol, which clearly worked beautifully for him." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"We hypothesized that in patients taking 20 mg/day, efficacy would be maintained but the incidence of adverse events would be lower. We present a meta-analysis of efficacy and safety data for fluoxetine, 20 mg/day. METHOD: Data were from 3 double-blind studies (N = 417) that included patients with moderate-to-severe major depression (DSM-III or DSM-III-R criteria) who received placebo or fixed-dose 20-mg/day treatment with fluoxetine." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If you examine these catastrophe predictions, you'll learn that nothing terrible is going to happen, which means you'll be able to handle adverse events much better in the future without having to interrupt your feelings with food. Here's what happens: Something occurs. You start to feel intensely about it, and then go into a panic mode, thinking something terrible is going to happen (like you're going to fall apart or run away).These are images in your mind." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"We relieve symptoms but in the process damage the endothelium, actually increasing the risk for future adverse events. Vitamin C along with vitamin E and N-acetylcysteine (another antioxidant nutritional supplement with lung and kidney protective benefits) prevent nitrate tolerance. When taken together, you get the upside without the downside. We recommend 1,000 mg of vitamin C with 500 mg of N-acetylcysteine or 200 to 400 IU of vitamin E. B Vitamins The Miracle of Niacin Prior to his heart attack, Lou epitomized destructive type A behavior." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Infants, healthy adults and the elderly have reported no adverse events from probiotics. • Insufficient evidence is available to recommend probiotics to pregnant or lactating women. • Probiotic use may pose some risk for immunocompromised individuals • Prebiotics appear safe for all. Probiotics are capable of enormous positive health effects on the human body. As researchers discover more ways in which probiotics can benefit health and they become used by a wider population of people, the safety of probiotics becomes of great importance." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Studies have not reported any adverse events in patients with C. difficile infections who are taking probiotics. However, there is concern that treatment with probiotics may pose a risk of septicemia. Septicemia is a bacterial infection of the blood. When the intestinal lining is badly damaged and inflamed, as in some C. difficile infections, bacteria in the intestinal tract can travel across the lining and into the bloodstream. This is called translocation. Only one probiotic speices has been found to have the ability to translocate in research to date: Lactobacillus GG." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Efficacy, adverse events, and treatment discontinuations in fluoxetine clinical studies of major depression: a meta-analysis of the 20-mg/day dose. Beasley CM Jr, Nilsson ME, Koke SC, Gonzales JS. - Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Ind 46285, USA. J Clin Psychiatry. 2000 Oct;61(10):722-8. BACKGROUND: The efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with moderate-to-severe major depression are well established. However, most analyses combined dosages (20-80 mg/day) of the compound." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"According to the CDC, parents "should report clinically significant adverse events even if you are unsure whether a vaccine caused the event." You can obtain information about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) by phone (800-822-7967) or online (www. vaers.hhs.gov/vaers.htm#5). If you feel that your child might be having a life-threatening reaction to a recently administered vaccine, call 911 or take your child to the emergency room immediately. For more information on contradictions to vaccines, see the CDC's Contraindications to Vaccines Chart (www.cdc." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Here is a direct quote from the 6th edition of Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases called "The Pink Book," published by the CDC: There is no distinct syndrome from vaccine administration, and therefore, many temporally associated adverse events probably represent background illness rather than illness caused by the vaccine...The DTaP may stimulate or precipitate inevitable symptoms of underlying CNS disorder, such as seizures, infantile spasms, epilepsy or SIDS. By chance alone, some of these cases will seem to be temporally related to DTaP." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Overall, five patients withdrew prematurely from the beginning of the phase two clinical trial over the twenty-month period due to adverse events: three due to nausea and vomiting, one because of weakness and weight loss, and another for increased agitation and delusion. As I've mentioned before, it is always somewhat risky to disrupt the body's normal systems, especially with regard to a protein like amyloid precursor protein, which occurs throughout the body and may have neuroprotective properties. Alzhemed is still a long way from being a viable treatment." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The instructions say that some patients have suffered "serious cardiac adverse events" and died within a few hours of taking the drug. Some of those who died had no histories of heart disease. Even a fourteen-year-old boy had a heart attack within a day of taking the drug. Moreover, all headache medicines, including the triptans, can cause pain the next day or rebound headaches, the problem the woman seemed to be asking Dr. Reed about. A study by German scientists in 2001 found that people who overused triptan medications like Imitrex could suffer from withdrawal headaches lasting four days." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Yet as Fisher's research suggests, involving another specialist leads to more procedures and tests—and the more procedures and tests, along with more days in the hospital, the greater the opportunity for complications and for latent errors to pile up into catastrophic adverse events. At first, the idea that more specialists can make for worse medical care seems thoroughly wrongheaded. After all, isn't the specialist the doctor with the most knowledge about a given condition and therefore the one person most able to help us get better? Well, yes and no." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The relationship between control of blood sugar and the reduction in the relative risk of untoward outcomes is linear and with a low slope, meaning that you're increasingly a bit more likely to be spared adverse events than if you were not treated to lower your blood sugar. It's not a particularly impressive result from all the massaging of data." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "It has well-documented cardiovascular and central-nervous-system effects that have caused adverse events. Its benefit/ risk ratio is very small, at best. Various authorities, including Sid Wolfe, who directs the Citizen Health Research Group, assaulted the fda to ban this agent in order to protect the uninformed and unsuspecting. The agent was pulled from the market despite arguments by its purveyors that too few are harmed to be concerned. I agree that few are harmed, but that's too many given its benefits. Caveat emptor." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Reports and human clinical trials including more than 2,800 patients demonstrate the low incidence of adverse events associated with black cohosh. The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for International Drug Monitoring database of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical and herbal products revealed a total of 35 adverse reactions to black cohosh as of July 31, 2000. The reactions were primarily general and temporary symptoms and were not concentrated on a particular organ system." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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