Showing posts with label adverse drug reactions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adverse drug reactions. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Truth About Gun and Doctors

There are 32K gun deaths in the US and 16K of them are suicides The rest are accidental shootings justifiable homicide and illegal killings so the fact is there really is not an epidemic of gun violence.

There are more guns but less gun owners than anytime in our history. There are 80 million gun owners currently.

In every mass shooting the common thread was prescription drugs. Mass shootings are a recent thing and so is the proliferation of psych meds. 

Suicides are 12 in 100,000 among the population. Most suicides are in the 45+ population. Military suicides are 34 per 100,000 which is nearly 3 times the national average. The common thread is psych meds and in the case of soldiers and vets that drug is Seroquel.

Let's look at some real carnage: 

440.000 deaths are from medical errors alone. Link

Medical errors net the medical industry an extra 1 TRILLION dollars per year. LINK

At least 200,000 people die from hospital acquired infections and 2 million get infected and that is based on the 26 states that report. There are no federal laws in AmeriKKKa requiring the reporting of nosocomial infections.


Both of Proud FA's parents were killed by medical errors as was a dear friend of ours.

There are 80 million gun owners in the US and 700,000 MDs. Draw your own conclusions.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

FDA Corruption

The FDA's Long History of Corruption

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Going as far back as the 1950s -- and likely even much earlier than that -- the FDA has made it routine practice to ignore and even deny the dangers associated with drugs and medical devices when approving them. In the case of the Upjohn Company, for instance, which unveiled the antibiotic drug Panalba back in 1957, the FDA ignored many years of complaints about the drug's safety in order to protect the company's profits.


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At the time, data showed that as many as 20 percent of patients taking Panalba had suffered severe allergic reactions to the antibiotic, and yet the FDA did nothing. Even Upjohn's own research studies on Panalba showed that the drug was less effective and less safe than alternative drugs on the market, and still the FDA did nothing, effectively sheltering Upjohn's enormous profits from Panalba, which represented 12 percent of its overall profit earnings.

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Sadly, the same is true today, as the drug industry and the FDA essentially work in tandem to get dangerous, but highly-profitable, drugs and medical devices to market. It is a win-win situation for both groups as the FDA gets kickbacks in the form of exorbitant new drug and medical device application fees, and the drug industry rakes in billions of dollars for blockbuster drug and device products that would never have been approved had science and facts been legitimately factored into the equation.

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