Analysis: Deaths From Drug Reactions Up

September 11th, 2007 By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- Reports of dangerous side effects and deaths from widely used medicines almost tripled between 1998 and 2005, an analysis of U.S. drug data found.

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