America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part V–FDA Complicit in Crimes
FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths.
FDA, a complicit partner in crimes and corrupt industry practices have resulted in an epidemic of preventable injuries and deaths.
Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.
In 2008, 6,485 trials were conducted off shore with almost no FDA oversight. Seventy-eight percent of all human test subjects were enrolled at foreign sites.
The deceptive marketing of antipsychotic drugs has prompted new advocacy group to launch "The Just Say "Know" to Prescription Drugs Campaign." Its goal is to get one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they are taking.
Every federal oversight agency evaluating FDA’s safety performance has given the agency flunking grades. See:https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/148/55/
One day following a rport in The New York Times, Sanifo-Aventis, manufacturer of Ketek, suspended the trial in children. The FDA has not announced any action.