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Originally Posted by jp4m2  My post was directly related to Tamiflu, I don't believe any other antiviral was associated with this problem.....I'm sorry if that is what it looked like......Just trying to be helpful as to avoid any bad reactions......I wish someone had done the same for me when my father was ill......
I will agree that every drug has it's good and bad but having said that today many drugs that come out on the market are just not safe.....106, 000 people die every year, not from prescription abuse, but from taking the drugs correctly. This figure is more than likely much high than this because of gross under reporting.....In just the past ten years a dozen drugs have been removed from the market.... frontline: dangerous prescription: a dirty dozen | PBS
.....these drugs caused many deaths and serious injuries. I'm sure many of the people taking them thought of them as safe drugs.....If you where to look up "pharmaceuticals and FDA connection" you would be shocked at the process of drug approval, how clinical trials are done, fudged statistics, employees from the FDA having financial ties to drug companies, and how drugs are not pulled from the market when problems start to occur.....
For me looking into this subject has been quite surprising and also very, frightening and disturbing......The more I kept reading that old saying kept coming to my mind..... " Don't believe everything you think." ...and I certainly don't anymore.....
Wishing you well and stay healthy..... |
You are correct about the FDA....scary stuff goes on. Nothing shocks me anymore.
I was the recipient of a product that was used in one of my surgeries that left me with permanent neurological damage....it was rushed through the FDA approval and then taken off the market after many people like me were left with problems. The head of the company was nailed with insider trading charges and bankruptcy was filed.
I only found out about it by chance a few years later. At the time when I kept complaining about the problems I was having, I was made to believe I was imagining it...at least that is how I felt. Funny thing is that they KNEW about it because it was recalled, but no one informed me. I found out years later. So...no...not shocked at all.