Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine

[atommom]

STOCKHOLM, Dec 30 (IPS) - While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, drawing upon the substantive expertise of its drug scientists in vigilant dedication to the public's health, that is not the case today.

Documentation, interviews and recent drug debacles depict a brutally different reality, with the Vioxx scandal alone estimated to have resulted in 30,000-55,000 U.S. deaths.

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"It's more than manipulation -- they (the FDA and NIH) put their seal of approval on things that they knew were false, were wrong ... they've betrayed the trust. Instead of servants of the public, they became truly agents and promoters of the Industry," said Vera Hassner Sharav, a renowned drug industry critic whose years of work as head of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) broke much of the ground for today's revelations.

"Now we're seeing the pattern, we're seeing that it isn't one drug, not one company, but rather the entire enterprise," added Hassner Sharav in an interview.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26874

[Oversea Visitor]

1. So so true

But which Americans will say its true
I mean their Mass Media dont cover this

[atommom]

2. Our mass media don't cover a lot of things these days.

I'm just grateful for the Internet and international media!