More worrying reports about safety of conventional medicine

boardswalker

A report in today's New York Times highlights the growing concern at the pardadox of drugs causing what they were supposed to prevent.

The article is here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/health/policy/17drug.html?_r=1&ref=health

According to Daniel Carpenter, a government professor at Harvard who is an expert on the FDA, “Here is a wide-scale institutional failure,” he said. “We have placed far more resources and requirements upon premarket assessment of drugs than on postmarket.”

I guess it's still "caveat emptor."

bleg

Drugs in having risk benefit ratio shocker.

boardswalker

bleg wrote: »

Drugs in having risk benefit ratio shocker.

And the key point of the article is that the risks are not being properly identified up front and are not being quantified and because of that the supposed risk benefit ratios are unreliable.

“The basic underlying theme is that we don’t have good long-term safety indices for common chronic diseases that we are treating with major drugs,” said Dr. Clifford J. Rosen, director of the Maine Center for Osteoporosis Research.

bleg

Look boardswalker, I'm not going to have this argument with you. Good luck with your agenda, whatever it is.