Drug Companies Blast FDA Drug Safety Site

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Drug Companies Blast FDA Drug Safety Site

 

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

complained that a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plan to release

preliminary findings about prescription drug side effects on a Drug

Watch Web site would lead to confusion and " irrational fears. "

 

The Web site, which is in planning stages for a launch later this

year, will have safety information about medications currently under

FDA review. Medications or classes of treatments would only be placed

on the Web site if the new Drug Safety Oversight Board finds enough

evidence of safety concerns to warrant additional research.

 

PhRMA claimed that the information would be " too vague and preliminary

to be of any value, " and that the Web site might exceed the FDA's

authority, or violate a law that regulates what information can be

released by federal agencies.

 

 

 

Medical News Today August 11, 2005

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

If this wasn't such a serious issue you would have to laugh at the

audacity of the pharmaceutical industry. They actually have the brazen

impudence to say that informing you about drug safety concerns could

lead to " irrational fears. " Of course, if such information had been

widely publicized about Vioxx before it hit the market, it could have

saved tens of thousands of lives, but apparently that pales before the

threat of " irrational fears. "

 

The only thing that is irrational here, folks, is the drug companies'

delusional belief that they will continue to get away with their

charade for much longer. Just like the Berlin wall that fell, the

entire industry will eventually come crumbling down all around them.

They simply can't continue; we can't allow their greed to continue to

kill and harm millions.

 

More lives might have been saved if this FDA Web site had been up and

running in time to inform the public about Redux, Propulsid, Raxar,

Posicor, Lotronex, Duract or Rezulin, but you must be protected from

your " irrational fears " !

 

Maybe it's not a laughing matter after all.

 

But the industry's stance is, in many ways, ridiculous. No one is

going to turn down a genuinely life-saving drug because it might have

dangerous side effects. The drugs people are going to stop buying are

the ones they don't really need in the first place. The only thing

that will be hurt by this Web site is industry's bottom line.

 

You can find out more information about the FDA website here, and you

can also use my site to research some of the potential dangers of any

drug you are currently taking or considering. Tens of thousands of

physicians regularly use this site for that very purpose.

 

 

 

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