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Originally Posted by pstinard  FDA has done a lot of stupid things, but approving thalidomide wasn't one of them. (I'm not here to argue, I'm just a stickler for facts.) The FDA denied the application for thalidomide multiple times, but the Canadian agency approved it. I agree that a lot of drug side effects and interactions aren't discovered until after they have been approved. I shudder at the high cost of biologicals and pray I will never need to take one. |
Thanks for the correction Phil on the FDA for thalidomide but the thing is a drug should be tested prior approval for *all* its effects. It was someones' brilliant idea to denote a term of *side effects* which can include death, blindness, irreversible organ disease, hypertension, etc etc etc etc.
These so called side effects need to be weighed very very carefully and quite frankly the medical profession does not explain this to the patient well at all. And of course here I talk about human medicine, the veterinary medicine is way way behind human medicine in terms of trials and knowledge
You know it is pretty hard to live without a functioning liver - or to live blind..... And there are some drugs that have this risk that are used in treatment for some chronic *diseases*.
I too very much hope that you never need biologicals - they are not only financially very expensive but have some very very serious health risks