“inactive” ingredients in medications can and do make people sick
A premier science journal, Science Translational Medicine, pointed out that extraneous substances in medications can and do make people sick--in an article written by scientists at MIT and published March 13, 2019.
“Inactive”
ingredients in oral medications
Vol. 11, Issue 483, eaau6753
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aau6753
enhance their physical properties. Using data analytics, we characterized the abundance and complexity of inactive ingredients in
approved medications. A majority of medications contain ingredients that could cause
adverse reactions, underscoring the need to maximize the tolerability and
safety of medications and their inactive ingredients.