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Byron Richards author of
Fight for Your
Health. Byron's mission is to
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This blog uncovers the vested-interests driving the
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Posted
June 12, 2006:
FDA Acts
to Shield Drug Companies from Drug-Induced Deaths and
Injuries
In April of 1998 the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
dropped a bombshell on Americans and sent a major
wake-up call to the drug-saturated medical community:
Drugs taken while in hospitals are needlessly killing
106,000 Americans per year (a combination of correctly
taken drugs and medical errors).
Read Article
In July
of 2000 another JAMA article pointed out that as
many as 199,000 Americans a year not in hospitals
(outpatients) also died from adverse drug
reactions. Janet Woodcock, Deputy Commissioner of the
FDA, estimates that 1.6 million Americans are sent to
emergency rooms each year with adverse drug reactions.
This includes many children with severe reactions to
ADHD medication.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=10854389
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/health/06fda.html?ex=1150084800&en=23111f38330bf98c&ei=5070
http://www.fdanews.com/dailies/drugdaily/2_361/news/56195-1.html
In
January of this year the New York Times reported that:
“Each year, some 300,000
people are injured and nearly 100,000 are killed in
hospitals because of medical errors, studies show.
Dangerous drug interactions and prescribing errors are a
major cause of these problems.
But fewer than 10 percent
of physicians actually read drug labels, which provide
the most complete information about a drug's dangers and
uses, the studies show. And when they do read drug
labels, doctors learn little, the studies show.”
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Despite a death toll of at least 275 patients per day
for the last eight years (and most likely much
longer and higher), little is done to fix the problem.
In fact, Time Magazine recently did a cover story
based on the idea that a doctor’s greatest fear is
becoming a patient!
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How can
any industry get away with such an atrocity against its
own citizens?
The FDA is mandated by law
to protect the American public from these risks.
Instead, the FDA is acting to protect drug company
profits. The FDA was supposed to be approving new drug
labels that would make it easier for patients and
doctors to understand how a drug works, its side
effects, and how to take it – hopefully this would cut
down on some of these unnecessary deaths.
What the FDA really has
in mind is speeding new and dangerous drugs into the
market, so that drug companies do not have to spend
such a long time testing drugs for safety. Instead,
these new and powerful biotechnology drugs will be
clinically tested on the American public. In order for
this campaign to be successful (from a drug company
point of view), patients can’t be allowed to sue drug
companies if they are injured. The FDA, acting with the
best of intentions on behalf of drug companies, snuck a
disclaimer on the new drug labels that are to be
released in July of 2006. This disclaimer prevents any
person who takes the drug from filing a lawsuit in state
court.
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This is concrete proof that
the FDA has little interest in protecting the public and
places a very high priority on protecting drug
companies, and is even willing to set policy that
undermines a citizen’s rights and supersedes established
state law. A complete description of the FDA campaign
to undermine health in American can be found in the new
book
Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of
America.
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