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Editor: Robert Binstock
Profession: Paxil Side Effect Attorney

Category: Side Effects

Paxil is number fifteen on a list of dangerous drugs included in a new study that shows reports of adverse drug effects have more than doubled over the last decade. Serious health effects that lead to deaths also more than doubled.

"A change of this magnitude ought to be cause for alarm," says Thomas J. Moore, senior scientist, drug safety and policy, for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., and the lead author of the study.

Moore and his colleagues analyzed serious adverse drug events voluntarily reported to the FDA though the Adverse Events Reporting System (AERS), known as the "MedWatch" reports, from 1998 to 2005. A serious adverse drug event is defined as one that results in death, a birth defect, disability, hospitalization, was life-threatening, or needed intervention to avoid harm.

The list of drugs most associated with adverse side effects include: Paxil (antidepressant), Tylenol (over-the-counter pain reliever, Celebrex (anti-inflammatory) and several others.

The report was published in the September 10th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.