Kematian Bruce Lee akibat kesan sampingan ubat.

Saya menonton kisah lagenda Kung Fu/Hollywood Artist Bruce Lee di laman tv Astro sempena cuti hari raya cina. Baru saya tahu bahawa mendiang Bruce Lee meninggal pada usia muda (33thn) akibat kesan sampingan ubat yang diambil oleh beliau.

Beliau telah mengambil sejenis ubat penahan sakit (analgesic) dengan jenama Aquagesic yg mengandungi aspirin dan meprobamate (sejenis muscle relaxant). Kesan sampingan meprobamate ini mengakibatkan otak menjadi kembang dan akhirnya menyebabkan kematian. Sayang sekali, orang muda yg berkaliber spt Bruce Lee tewas akibat kesan sampingan ubat.

Sejak dari itu penggunaan ubat meprobamate telah diharamkan dari pasaran.

Ubat dadah (drug) boleh menjadi penawar dan juga boleh jadi racun yang bahaya kepada badan.
Berhati-hatilah apabila menggunakan drug. Seboleh bolehnya elakkan penggunaan ubat dan cuba cara semulajadi.

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Prescription Drugs - Leading Killer in USA

Prescription Drugs - Leading Killer in USA

According to information we have received, a statistical study of hospital deaths in the U.S. conducted at the University of Toronto revealed that pharmaceutical drugs kill more people every year than are killed in traffic accidents.

The study is said to show that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) within the 12-month period of the study and, of these, over 100,000 died as a result. The researchers found that over 75 per cent of these ADRs were dose-dependent, which suggests they were due to the inherent toxicity of the drugs rather than to allergic reactions.

The data did not include fatal reactions caused by accidental overdoses or errors in administration of the drugs. If these had been included, it is estimated that another 100,000 deaths would be added to the total every year.

The researchers concluded that ADRs are now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

Source: Jason, et al. (Lazarou et al), Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Vol. 279. April 15, 1998, pp. 1200-05. Also Bates, David W., Drugs and Adverse Drug Reactions: How Worried Should We Be? JAMA, Vol. 279. April 15, 1998, pp. 1216-17.

One of the first JAMA article on medical errors appeared in JAMA 1994;272:1851-7. by Leape LL. Then in April 1998, JAMA 1998 Apr 15;279(15):1200-5 Seehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&Dopt=r&uid=9555760

Related articles are at http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n20/related/jlt1125-1.html#searchmedline

Medical Errors - A Leading Cause of Death

Medical Errors - A Leading Cause of Death

The JOURNAL of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000 article written by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, shows that medical errors may be the third leading cause of death in the United States.

The report apparently shows there are 2,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery; 7000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths/year from infections in hospitals; 106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medications - these total up to 225,000 deaths per year in the US from iatrogenic causes which ranks these deaths as the # 3 killer. Iatrogenic is a term used when a patient dies as a direct result of treatments by a physician, whether it is from misdiagnosis of the ailment or from adverse drug reactions used to treat the illness. (drug reactions are the most common cause).

Ramai yang Mati Akibat Kesan Sampingan Ubat-Ubatan

Semakin ramai manusia bergantung kepada ubat-ubatan untuk merawat penyakit atau mengekalkan kesihatan. Sebenarnya penggunaan drug/dadah memberi kesan baik dan kesan buruk kepada tubuh badan manusia. Ia jika digunakan dengan cara yang betul sekalipun tetap ada memberikan kesan buruk kepada manusia. Di Seluruh dunia, beratus ribu manusia meninggal dunia setiap tahun akibat kesan buruk daripada penggunaan drug.

Ada yang terpaksa memakan segenggam ubat setiap hari sepanjang umur hidup semata-mata untuk mengelakkan penyakit2 yang dihidapi dari membahayakan badan, tetapi apa yang ramai TIDAK ketahui BAHAYA penggunaan ubat-ubatan yang bersifat RACUN kepada badan manusia.

Seharusnya kita ada punya PILIHAN lain selain bergantung kepada DRUG sahaja untuk mendapatkan tubuh badan yang sihat.

100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies Get Rich
Prescription drugs taken as directed kill 100,000 Americans a year. That's one person every five minutes. How did we get here?
June 25, 2010  |






How many people do you know who regularly use a prescription medication? If your social group is like most Americans', the answer is most. Sixty-five percent of the country takes a prescription drug these days. In 2005 alone, we spent $250 billion on them.