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FDA, Center for Evaluation and Research

-Adverse drug reactions are the fourth leading cause ;
-There are over two million serious Adverse Drug Reactions each year;
-Adverse drug reactions account for approximately 100,000 deaths each year;

Good advice, ask..ask..ask. Get all the information you can. ADR’s are serious and in many cases can be completely avoided with knowledge. Recently at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco a new consumer health tool was released in beta to help avoid problematic drug interactions.

The consumer health tool http://doublecheckmd.com makes DCMD makes finding drug-related problems fast and easy. Because DCMD identifies drug-related problems in a fraction of the time it would take other systems, DCMD is helping people recognize drug side effects that would otherwise have been missed for lack of time. What is really unique about this tool is it’s Natural Language Technology which enables the system to understand symptoms as the user naturally describes them. Everybody explains how they feel differently so this system will be able to interact with its users unlike anything else currently available.

The site is available for a beta preview right now. I would really like to hear what you have to say about it, I think it is going to help a lot of individuals and save lives. I hope you find it as exciting as I do!

A factual article with what goes wrong with a medical prescription. The answer to it is to ASK, plain and simple.

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