| Vegan Health News | 22 July 2006 |
Prescription Drugs Now Killing 100,000 Americans a Year
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The drugs approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration are now killing 100,000 Americans a year.
The journal Nature has published studies showing that 70 percent of the drug decision panels run in USA are rigged with decision-makers who have strong financial ties to the very drug companies whose products are affected by these decisions.
Drug company advertising brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year that fund these medical journals and pay the salaries of the editors who determine which studies the journal will and won't accept. So guess what gets into the journals? That's right - the studies that promote prescription drugs (http://www.newstarget.com/prescription_drugs.html). The benefits of these drugs are routinely exaggerated and the risks are routinely minimized.
When something goes wrong with the drug and it starts killing tens of thousands of Americans, guess what? They convene a decision panel. This is what happened with the FDA (http://www.newstarget.com/the_FDA.html) recently, when they convened a panel to decide whether Vioxx http://www.newstarget.com/Vioxx.html was dangerous enough to be banned from the marketplace.
It turns out Vioxx has probably killed more than 60,000 Americans, according to a senior drug safety researcher at the FDA, Dr. David Graham. He revealed this in testimony before the U.S. Senate. According to the FDA, that's not dangerous enough to pull the drug. The FDA panel voted to keep Vioxx on the market. Prescription drugs are a leading cause of death in America http://www.newstarget.com/cause_of_death.html.
Conventional medicine wants you to think these drugs are recommended because they've been scientifically proven, because they have undergone safety testing and have been approved as safe by the FDA. They don't tell you the rest of the story. Prescription drugs are now the fourth leading cause of death in USA. The drugs approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration are now killing 100,000 Americans a year. Prescription drugs make deaths from terrorism, murder, automobile collisions and illegal drug use seem tiny by comparison. The number of deaths from prescription drugs dwarfs just about everything else that's happened in this country in terms of fatalities.
Additional Reference: Nature Journal
Editor's Note: The compulsory testing of most of these drugs on animals causes enormous suffering and death to animals. Nobody wins. What's the alternative to prescription drugs? See Health Topics.
