Vital Drug Safety Information Suppressed
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Since Health Canada relies on the US FDA and doesn't listen to our house scientists (Chive Chopra,
Margaret Leighton & Perre Blaise -for instance) and vengefully fires them when they blow the whistle what
else is new?
United States Food & Drug Administration Suppressed Vital Drug
Safety Information
12 June 2005 - The Independent published an article today which makes the case that vital safety information on numerous pharmaceutical products is purposely withheld by the FDA t protect the interests of pharma producers. In addition to Vioxx and the whole family of Cox-2 inhibitors, other
Painkillers, previously thought safe, are now found to cause similar effects on cardiac health. The data was buried and partially concealed by the FDA, say researchers. Similarly, the FDA fought to withhold data showing that antidepressant drugs increase the incidence of suicide among children taking them. This in stark contrast to the FDA's lead role in engineering international legislation (through Codex Alimentarius...
www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/06/12/fda_suppressed_vital_drug_safety_information.htm
