Friday, June 16, 2006

The FDA Undermines Citizen’s Rights

The FDA has been working on new drug labels that are suppose to 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. 

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. 

http://health.msn.com/healthnews/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100137162