AP Analysis: How a Drug's Risks Emerge (though first undetected by the FDA)

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Risky_Drugs_Analysis.html

How does a drug go from blockbuster to bust?

How can big safety issues go undetected in medicines taken by millions of people for many years, as happened this week with the diabetes pill Avandia and a few years ago with the painkiller Vioxx?

Or with devices like drug-coated stents, which came under a cloud last year after 6 million heart patients had already received them?

All roads - and fingers this week - point to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. From a company's labs to a consumer's lips, the chronically understaffed federal agency has the power and duty to keep dangerous products from harming the public.

But not the sole power. Increasingly, consumer groups, government whistleblowers and private scientists doing independent research are calling attention to safety problems the FDA has been slow to detect and resolve.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. All drugs have an LD50 rating for toxicity which is arrived at

by testing on animals. This means all drugs are toxic in one way or another. Even water has its own safety limitations as seen by the recent contest that ended in the contestants death.

Many many drugs have relatively safe and effective natural counterparts, but you will not be told about them. You have to do your own homework, for example, the CoxII inhibitors that exist in nature are easily found, quite affordable and for the most part, as safe as the spices in your cupboard.

http://www.amazon.com/Dietary-Supplement-Glucosamine-Chondroitin-Inhibitors/dp/B000IUQOFW
Product Features

* This Nutritional Supplement contains only high quality ingredients such as PUREFLEX, Glucosamine, and Chondroitin.
* Natural COX-II Inhibitors, Boswellin, Curcumin and Bromelain.
* Consumer preferred, pharmaceutical grade CAPSUGEL Capsules, a division of Pfizer.
* Manufactured in a cGMP approved facility.
* These Dietary Supplement can be used in conjunction with ORTHOGEL Advanced Pain Relief.

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2. Yet there are those who say...

If you don't volunteer members of your family to be guinea pigs for new vaccines that might help you, you're anti-science, hate women, or a closet freeper, because everyone knows that drug companies wouldn't withhold information that shows their drug may be harmful just to make a profit.