Investigation Claims Many Popular Drugs Offer Small Benefit, Negative Side Effects.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2016/12/14/medicines-secret-some-drugs-wont-help-most-those-who-take-them/95354170/ found that the “biggest secret in medicine,” according to F. Perry Wilson, a researcher and physician at Yale University School of Medicine, is that “For the vast majority of the drugs out there, the chance that you, as an individual, are going to see a benefit is quite small.” Furthermore, a push by pharmaceutical companies to “turn a series of everyday conditions into medical disorders, means more people are taking – and being harmed by – the suspect drugs.” The investigation looked into “eight conditions that became part of mainstream medicine over the past 20 years, ranging from pre-diabetes to overactive bladder.” According to the analysis, since 2013, “nearly 65,000 reports of serious side effects involving drugs used to treat five of the conditions have been reported to the FDA,” including over 1,600 deaths.