Traditional medicine is today most often characterised by a wide variety of diverging practices which lack a solid legal and medical framework that could prevent deviations and abuse along with their potentially dangerousconsequences for patients.
Numerous British economists had warned against the deep budget cutting, arguing that the government was heading down a dangerous path with potentially severe consequences.
If realized, however, such a Baker-Gorbachev plan would amount to a shortsighted publicity stunt for the Administration -- one with potentially dangerous long-term consequences for America's vital interests in its own hemisphere.
The Food and Drug Administration instituted the new limit on the top 80-milligram dose of Zocor, generically known as simvastatin because that dose has been associated with an elevated risk of muscle injury, which can lead to potentially dangerousconsequences.