Edited sentence: Alternative medicine appears to be safer than conventional medicine.In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lazarou and colleagues found an incidence of 6.7 percent serious adverse reactions, and 0.32 per cent fatal reactions in hospitalized patients.It is rare for Alternative Medicine to cause serious negative effects and almost unheard of that it should cause fatalities.They estimated that in 1994 there were 2,216,000 serious adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients, with 106,000 deaths.This make adverse drug reactions the fourth most common cause of death