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Yet another glaring instance of the FDA showing who they really serve:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities were aware of a type of heart risk linked to GlaxoSmithKline Plc's widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia and another competitor nearly five years ago, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said on Tuesday.In 2002, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff scientists called for reports of congestive heart failure to be included on the label of Avandia as well as Actos, made by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the group said, citing an internal FDA document.
The group released the memo one day after researchers reported Avandia, or rosiglitazone, raises the risk of other heart-related problems -- cardiovascular-related death by 64 percent and heart attack by 43 percent.
For more of the story: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2246284520070522
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MoreThis is a reply to # 879,587It doesn't surprise me in the least. I recall reading an interview of the FDA whistleblower of Vioxx--- how they warned him beforehand that his interests in the FDA were supposed to be for the economic good and not soley for public welfare.
I don't recall the exact way they put it to him, but it was very clear what they meant. Shocked and dissillusioned, he couldnt believe his ears . After he blew the whistle, he was socially ostracized from his peers at the FDA-- and professionally harrassed.
Some in the FDA in the lower rungs are sincere -- but the more on top of the ladder rung , the more corruption there is.
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This is a reply to # 880,023The whistle blower should have read the quote from a past FDA Commissioner that pretty much says it all:
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Herbert Ley
Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
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