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Dreamsglore wrote:. wrote:PBulldog2 wrote:. wrote:PBulldog2 wrote:Harvard University
The Lab @ Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Risky Drugs: Why The FDA Cannot Be Trusted
By Donald W. Light
A forthcoming article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, presents evidence that about 90 percent of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective for patients than existing drugs.
All of them may be better than indirect measures or placebos, but most are no better for patients than previous drugs approved as better against these measures. The few superior drugs make important contributions to the growing medicine chest of effective drugs.
The bar for “safe” is equally low, and over the past 30 years, approved drugs have caused an epidemic of harmful side effects, even when properly prescribed. Every week, about 53,000 excess hospitalizations and about 2400 excess deaths occur in the United States among people taking properly prescribed drugs to be healthier. One in every five drugs approved ends up causing serious harm, while one in ten provide substantial benefit compared to existing, established drugs. This is the opposite of what people want or expect from the FDA.
Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. Deaths and hospitalizations from over-dosing, errors, or recreational drug use would increase this total. American patients also suffer from about 80 million mild side effects a year, such as aches and pains, digestive discomforts, sleepiness or mild dizziness.
The forthcoming article in JLME also presents systematic, quantitative evidence that since the industry started making large contributions to the FDA for reviewing its drugs, as it makes large contributions to Congressmen who have promoted this substitution for publicly funded regulation, the FDA has sped up the review process with the result that drugs approved are significantly more likely to cause serious harm, hospitalizations, and deaths. New FDA policies are likely to increase the epidemic of harms.
http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/312-risky-drugs
The title of this thread and the content do not go together.
FDA is part of the GOV by the way.
Who ya wanna pick a fight with, the FDA or physicians?
We do have the best healthcare in the world. Kings, queens and all other important very wealthy persons do not travel here to be treated for no reason.
Whats even more sad is you claim to be a nurse and feel that our services are inferior. Youre complaint is with access, or I thought it was. But now I guess you just want to pick a fight.
Now before you go off your rocking chair, dont try and toss that WHO shit at me again. We have been down that old and wore out infant mortality rate a million times. And weve hashed out the cancer survival rate many times which showed us superior for the two main cancers, prostate and breast.
We have some of the best hospitals and researches right here in this country.
Matter of a fact most doctors from OTHER countries come here to get a education to even be a doctor.
Oh I could go on, but I figured this was enough to get your granny panties wet.
PS: Please retire
Wow, Chrissy, that was a pretty nasty post. You know my name; you can easily check and make sure I'm a nurse, so please stop the "you claim to be a nurse" crap. Post my name here if you wish. I have nothing to hide. And what's with the "please retire" comment? If want you want is a good fight, you know I'm up to it, but I thought we were past that.
And yes, my chief complaint is with access, although I posted this article to show how corrupt the FDA is. Corrupted by outside money provided by Big Pharma and congressmen, I might add.
Some people go on and on about how wonderful our health care system is in this country. My post shows how even a government agency, the FDA, can be corrupted by outside commercial interests who only want one thing: a huge profit.
PB. Heres my issue with your post.
If you want to attack the FDA, you should have just made your title that. Because the FDA is GOV and I would have supported you.
But you made your title an attack on US, yes that's right YOU and ME, because we are health care professionals. All these people who attack the health care in this country, you know what they say? They say oh those people make too much money, etc etc etc. They complain also because we are all suppose to be GODS and perfect like robots. Do you think they understand what it is like to put your life in danger everyday handling diseased patients and samples? Do you think they care about the long work days and high work volume per person ratio? Do you think they understand how hard it is to be so dedicated to serving your patients you skip lunches for years and become unhealthy yourself? Oh I could go on and on and you know it. I really don't ant to pick a fight with you but when I hear a nurse sarcastically demeaning our health system here in the USA it royally pisses me off.
I would expect that us healthcare professionals need to stick together because we are UNDER ATTACK! These bad mouthing anti usa healthcare system people are devaluing us. They think any mc Ds worker can come in and do our jobs. And that goes for the asshole we have as a president who created this fucking ACA that is killing us off.
So yes, I took the title of this thread personally. Because as a healthcare professional out here Im tired of people coming along and bashing us when we are out here struggling to do our jobs with even less than what we had before now with all the cuts. Theres ANOTHER cut coming btw.
So if you want to bitch about the GOV FDA, go ahead. But don't come along and then tell me you think the GOV can run healthcare better than us. Because this whole ACA thing isn't about healthcare at all. Its about GOV power and they don't give a shit what it does to healthcare.
If you skipped lunches for years you must have made it up w/ triple dinners,fatass. You are so ridiculous! LOL!
Calling me a fatass was uncalled for.
but lets get on thing straight. I got over 50 GOOD LOOKING men and few GOOD LOOKING ladies waiting to talk to this fatass because they think Im sexy.
Where's your real picture?
BTW. I CAM everyday, the people im talking to see me as I am. Nothing to hide, just me.
