AHRP has a new PDF. It contains some Disturbing, to say the least, factoids & quotes for folks who don't care to sift through laboratory-speak shop-talk.
Separating Science From Promotion, Evidence From Propaganda
pg 4:
Adverse Drug Reactions: 4th Leading Cause of DEATH in the US.
Each year:
1.5 Million Americans are hospitalized due to ADR.
106,000 hospitalized pts DIE of ADR.
JAMA, 1998
pg 5:
1998 - 2005: The DEATHS of 6,225 Americans were linked to Zyprexa, Risperdal, Clozaril
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007
pg 7: Placebo is Industry's Easy Pass
"Why risk trying to prove you're better than something, when all you need to show is that you're better than nothing?"
Robert Misbin, MD, FDA, Div. Endocrinology, 2001
"4 of every 28 new drugs are clinically superior - and 1 is also safe."
Dr Donald Light, Facts and Myths about Drug Development, 2007
pg 9: Vioxx: Just another pain pill with no therapeutic benefit
Estimated 130,000 to 953,000 cardiac events.
Donald Light, Institutional Foundations of Drug Disasters, 2008
55,000 Estimated DEATHS
David Graham, FDA Whistleblower
"Drug Disasters are literally built into the current system of drug testing and approvals, ..... We are virtually Defenseless against another Vioxx."
Dr David Graham, Senate Testimony, 2004
pg 25: Risperdal Linked To Gynecomastia (Growth of Breasts, in males)
70% of pediatric post marketing Gynecomastia Cases linked to Risperdal (Ed: which, BTW, the FDA has as being "safe & effective" after testing it in a Whole 417 adolescents aged 13-17)
An Informative, and hair raising read; it will take you 4 - 5 minutes Tops to breeze through, and Maybe get you on the phone to your Pharma Drug Money Campaign Contribution COI-ed Representatives, ...... .
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