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Other drugs such as insulin, the arthritis drugs Vioxx and Remicade, and the antidepressant Paxil were frequently linked to serious nonfatal complications.<\/p>\n<p>The report adds to recent criticism of FDA oversight on drug safety, including its handling of serious problems connected with Vioxx, which was removed from the market in 2004. &#8220;This growing toll of serious injury shows that the existing system is not adequately protecting patients and underscores the importance of recent reports urging far-reaching legislative, policy and institutional changes,&#8221; the authors said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/report-underscores-dangers-of\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Report Underscores Dangers of Medicines\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine has concluded that reports to the Food and Drug Administration of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005. 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