Deadly Medical Mistakes
Are Number One US Killer

For the first time, new information has been presented showing the degree to which Americans have been subjected to injury and death by medical errors.

The results of seven years of research reviewing thousands of studies conducted by the Nutrition Institute of America show for the first time that medical errors are the number one cause of death and injury in the United States.

According to the NIA's report, over 784,000 people die annually due to medical mistakes. Comparatively, the 2001 annual death rate for heart disease was 699,697 and the annual death rate for cancer was 553,251. Over 2.2 million people are injured every year by prescription drugs alone and over 20 million unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics are prescribed annually for viral infections.

The report also shows that 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed every year and 8.9 million people are needlessly hospitalized annually. Based on the results of NIA's report, it is evident that there is a pressing need for an overhaul of the entire American medical system.

The findings, described as a 'revelation' by Martin Feldman, MD, who helped to uncover the evidence, are the product of the first comprehensive studies on iatrogenic incidents (those caused by the treatment or drug itself). Never before has any study uncovered such a massive amount of information about the degree and effect of iatrogenesis. Historically, only small individual partial studies have been performed in this area.

Carolyn Dean, MD, a physician and author who also helped to uncover the findings said, "I was completely shocked, amazed, and dismayed when I first added up all the statistics on medical death and saw how much allopathic medicine has betrayed us."

The Nutrition Institute of America is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization that has been enlightening the public on health issues for nearly 30 years. For more information, contact David Slater, President of NIA at (646) 505 - 4660 ext 155.

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: More evidence of the disastrous failure of drug-based medicine. These figures are substantially higher than those reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association's July 2000 edition, where 225,000 was the given total.

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Health Wars
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century

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