In English:
translate.google.com/translate?j … auto&tl=en
In Italian:
canali.kataweb.it/salute/2010/06 … vicommenti
Good work 40!
Very Nice…I like the fact they mentioned Dr. Irwig study as well…
VERY NICE GUYS…LETS KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING…
A further article has appeared in another Italian newspaper, Il Fatto Quotidiano, on date June 19, 2010. It has been also reported on web: ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/06 … rali/26866. I translate as follows.
Online protests against side effects of drugs – by Caterina Perniconi
The protest against side effects caused by drugs spreads in the Web. A global emergency of which, according to the Pharmacovigilance Office of Italian Drug Agency (AIFA), there isn’t sufficient awareness in Italy yet, while in the United States it is the fourth leading cause of death.
Reports from abroad are rapidly spreading on Internet and have also reached the Italian Parliament. The Vice President of Democratic Party Deputies, Alessandro Maran, submitted a parliamentary question about the side effects that would derive from Propecia, a finasteride-based product which stops hair loss and is available to Italian consumers since over ten years. «In 2009 – Maran explains – Sweden and Great Britain have forced the manufacturer Merck Sharp & Dohme to add, in the list of warnings within the drug’s leaflet, the risks from use. In Italy, however, we haven’t done anything yet, neither a change of the information so far known about the product, nor an action to protect consumers». And yet AIFA is flooded since a few months with e-mails from young patients with irreversible side effects on sexual and psycho-physical health after using Propecia, often together with clinical reports of practitioners or specialists and communications of healthcare professionals.
The information is spreading only via Internet. In the propeciahelp.com website, there is a discussion forum of patients who suffered these side effects and at the American George Washington University the enrollments are open for a clinical research study about persistent adverse reactions from Propecia use. For information
files/021009c1_consent_895.pdf.