FDA Ignored Urgent Warnings

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The FDA is out of control and in the

Pockets of big business. They must be stopped. PRAY! Write

letters. Call. Do what YOU can to help in this fight.

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FDA

Ignored Urgent Warnings

http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-ignored-urgent-warnings/

 

April 6, 2010

Pulse

of Health Freedom has often pointed out the dangers of medical radiation, which produces cumulative

changes to our DNA, changes increasingly linked to cancer and heart disease.

The FDA concedes that one CT chest scan

delivers as much radiation as nearly 400 chest X-rays.

Now,

according to journalist Gardiner Harris, scientists have broken their year-long

silence and revealed how the FDA ignored their urgent warnings about the

“risks of routinely using powerful CT scans to screen patients

for colon cancer”.

Dr.

Julian Nicholas, a gastroenterologist trained at Oxford University

and the Mayo Clinic, has warned that radiation screening could “expose a

number of Americans to a risk of radiation that is unwarranted and may lead to

instances of solid organ abdominal cancer.” In June 2009, Nicholas wrote

FDA senior managers, urging that patients be told of the risks associated with

CT scanning: “I hope you understand that the failure to include a warning

on the label will mean that patients will undoubtedly develop abdominal cancer

and leukemia. It may not happen tomorrow, but yes, sadly it will happen.”

FDA

Medical Officer Robert Smith, M.D., former professor of radiology at Yale and

Cornell, has gone on record as agreeing with Dr. Nicholas.

FDA

policies forbid the penalizing of agency staff for expressing scientific views,

but on March 30, 2010, Nicholas told a public meeting of imaging specialists

that a month after he and eight colleagues voiced

their concerns about high-grade medical scanning to Dr. Jeffrey Shuren,

director of the FDA’s medical device division, he (Nicholas) was

ridiculed by agency managers for “raising the bugaboo of radiation”

and told that his job had been eliminated.

In his

book Should I Be Tested for Cancer: Maybe

Not and Here’s Why, Gilbert Welch, M.D., professor of

medicine at Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice,

contends “that testing healthy people for cancer is really a double-edged

sword: while these tests may help, they often

have surprisingly little effect and are sometimes even harmful”.

For too

long, medicine has failed to monitor radiation dosage, and errors have not been

identified and corrected.

When the

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently reviewed the medical records of

116 veterans implanted with radioactive seeds to treat their prostate cancer,

the results were disturbing. It was found that 97 of the 116 men had received

the wrong radiation dosage. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission responded by

imposing a fine of $227,500 “ for lacking procedures to ensure and verify that treatments

were done correctly, failing to properly train staff and neglecting to

immediately report mistakes”.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Jan,

I always look foward to your posts but this one hit close to me. You see one of the many things that the FDA approved with a known risk that was not passed on to the doctors and patients had a bad outcome to me and I am now disabled. Congress is aware and so is the president because a source at the FDA sent the president and his staff documented proof and they also sent it to congress. Congress produced an amendment that has not yet hit the house floor. It is called the medical device liability amendment. It will allow people to sue for damages against the companies that make these devices. As it stands right now judges are ruleing in favor of the manufacturer stateing that it was FDA approved. The people, like myself and worse, need help to get this passed. There are several families who are now single parent,widows or widowers or have a family members who are disabled like me. So I ask

for everyone to contact congress to help with this effort. Thank you Bill--- On Wed, 4/7/10, Jan Slama <slamajama2 wrote:

Jan Slama <slamajama2 FDA Ignored Urgent Warnings"Jan Slama" <janslamaWednesday, April 7, 2010, 3:02 PM

 

 

The FDA is out of control and in the Pockets of big business. They must be stopped. PRAY! Write letters. Call. Do what YOU can to help in this fight.

Contact the FDA: http://www.fda. gov/AboutFDA/ ContactFDA/ default.htm

FDA Ignored Urgent Warnings

http://www.anh- usa.org/fda- ignored-urgent- warnings/

April 6, 2010

Pulse of Health Freedom has often pointed out the dangers of medical radiation, which produces cumulative changes to our DNA, changes increasingly linked to cancer and heart disease.

The FDA concedes that one CT chest scan delivers as much radiation as nearly 400 chest X-rays.

Now, according to journalist Gardiner Harris, scientists have broken their year-long silence and revealed how the FDA ignored their urgent warnings about the “risks of routinely using powerful CT scans to screen patients for colon cancerâ€.

Dr. Julian Nicholas, a gastroenterologist trained at Oxford University and the Mayo Clinic, has warned that radiation screening could “expose a number of Americans to a risk of radiation that is unwarranted and may lead to instances of solid organ abdominal cancer.†In June 2009, Nicholas wrote FDA senior managers, urging that patients be told of the risks associated with CT scanning: “I hope you understand that the failure to include a warning on the label will mean that patients will undoubtedly develop abdominal cancer and leukemia. It may not happen tomorrow, but yes, sadly it will happen.â€

FDA Medical Officer Robert Smith, M.D., former professor of radiology at Yale and Cornell, has gone on record as agreeing with Dr. Nicholas.

FDA policies forbid the penalizing of agency staff for expressing scientific views, but on March 30, 2010, Nicholas told a public meeting of imaging specialists that a month after he and eight colleagues voiced their concerns about high-grade medical scanning to Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s medical device division, he (Nicholas) was ridiculed by agency managers for “raising the bugaboo of radiation†and told that his job had been eliminated.

In his book Should I Be Tested for Cancer: Maybe Not and Here’s Why, Gilbert Welch, M.D., professor of medicine at Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, contends “that testing healthy people for cancer is really a double-edged sword: while these tests may help, they often have surprisingly little effect and are sometimes even harmfulâ€.

For too long, medicine has failed to monitor radiation dosage, and errors have not been identified and corrected.

When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently reviewed the medical records of 116 veterans implanted with radioactive seeds to treat their prostate cancer, the results were disturbing. It was found that 97 of the 116 men had received the wrong radiation dosage. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission responded by imposing a fine of $227,500 “ for lacking procedures to ensure and verify that treatments were done correctly, failing to properly train staff and neglecting to immediately report mistakesâ€.

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[Guest guest]

HI Bill,

 

I'm so sorry to hear of your problems with a medical device. I understand that many do!

 

Would you please email me with the details of your problem, off the list at my own email, slamajama2 . Sometimes I can help. Don't give up!

 

Thank you for your kind words.

 

Love and blessings,

 

Jan