63 medicine-linked deaths reported in April 2004: agency
January 31, 2006Pharmaceutical makers reported to the authorities 63 cases of deaths suspected of being linked to medicines in just a single month -- April 2004, a semigovernmental agency said Tuesday in the first of an expected series of reports on drug side effects. The Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, an independent administrative corporation launched in April 2004, made public on its website 2,477 cases of side effects from 732 medicines that month, including the 63 deaths from 37 medicines, which are all prescription drugs.