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Originally Posted by gemy  FDA has a lot of warts and so does the Canadian equivalent!/ Don't tell me that drugs such as thalidimide which underwent FDA approval based on *scientific trials* and oh yes how about Vioxx? again approved by FDA and its Canadian counterpart balderdash at the minimum science gets it wrong and somehow our watchdogs are anything but a watchdog! A independent oversight organization needs private funding not bloody funding by the big Pharma companies//// That laughs at bias.
Do you know that anywhere between 15-20% of hospital admissions are for drug interactions!!! That is prescription Rx drug interactions.
That is a huge number! And where is the public outrage about this?
Where are the studies that show why this is so???????
Oh I have taken drugs that could have toxic effects on my liver, heart and kidneys, and now no more - as those self same drugs have negatively affected one of those organs. Oh yes you get the very very very brief laugh at informed consent to these drugs - but I knew because of my research how toxic they were ! Now because of my liver values I am off them for awhile - and we shall see if my liver recovers! How-ever as the drugs DID NOT work and relatively recent research over the past 10yrs show that they have at best50% efficacy but oh yes the biologics similar toxicity but have shown some promise to actually treat the ms disease is about 1500-1800 monthly which is now a crap shoot (not to mention unaffordable)- sic because of my liver values - oh yes thank you very much western science. |
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Originally Posted by ladyjane No, I had not heard this. Where are those figures from? |
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Originally Posted by ladyjane OK....Gemy said it was 15 - 20% ... this says 5 - 10%. Big difference. I was just wondering where she got her figures.
I just scanned this and will try to concentrate on it later on today. It is an interesting topic.
Thanks, Phil! |
I see the word quibbling floating about and see why now...my second post on the topic! I said the words "big difference" and that took away from my original question which was where did Gemy get this information.
The bottom line though is that I wanted to know where the numbers came from. The post had come across to me as that alarming amounts of people were being harmed by prescription drugs.
Phil answered me and at least I understand now that upwards of 1/4 of all hospital admissions are not horrible reactions to prescription meds.
It just alarmed me in the wording is all. Perhaps it might others as well. I am pretty clear now on the numbers...and the reasons.
