And, in on a not-lighter note--
 

--this just popped up on my news service, and I figured I'd post it here and on a few other forums; I especially think Melody will want to see it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/he...T7CjZ8rb1c0O0w

I have to say I sort of suspected something like this when the Avandia trials reports started coming out, but I'm jsut dismayed at the degree of obfuscation around in the name of profit.

I'm going to go be ****** off for a few hours now.

Thanks, Glenn. I share your outrage, too.

This is becoming all to common now I am afraid!

Did you know that in UK Pfizer is petitioning for a Lipitor wafer for children, to use? Statins for children????? :yikes:
It is not enough to destroy the health and brains of adults, but now they want to do the same to children????

I think we will see alot of similar dirty laundry about Lipitor when it goes generic here in 2011. That is when the dirt typically starts coming to light.

Uh..... If I read this right, I think this means that
an FDA official was in bed with GSK?
The FDA is helping cover this up?
We talk about graft in Greece & Spain causing problems?
We've gotta lot of housecleaning to do ourselves.
The agency designed to protect us - is helping the drug co's try to kill us?


.....Dr. John Jenkins, director of the agency’s office of new drugs, who has argued internally that Avandia should remain on the market, briefed the company extensively on the agency’s internal debate. “It is clear the office of new drugs is trying to find minimal language that will satisfy the office of drug safety,......

Well, there was the MMS case, where it was literal:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/wa...11royalty.html, which is of course directly related to the Goopey, Globby Gulf we have now.

When you keep insisting that the government can't do anything right and shouldn't anyway, guess what happens? It can't and doesn't.

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The agency designed to protect us - is helping the drug co's try to kill us?

***That's the sad part. The FDA isn't designed (nor necessarily staffed with people) to protect us. Decades of benign neglect followed by 8 years where big pharma wrote the rules that were [NOT] enforced by staff hoping to put in their 20 and then go to work for their real masters. It wasn't covered as well as **** Cheney's secret energy task force was (and we still don't know the names of the big energy participants at that table, but are living with the detritus of their reign with 100,00 barrels a day in the Gulf].

*** Rant off.

CB

PS: I laughed when I saw how the content filter changed the Vice President's name... edit finished

housecleaning should be starting with jail terms.

I dropped my statin drugs like a hot potato a year ago. I'll take my chances without them; especially since none in my family have died of cardiovascular problems.