The following post is from hairlosstalk.com/interact/vi … 46&t=42016
… by the user “joseph49853” . I’d just like to echo his sentiments, and that everyone should watch this video documentary on the FDA, big pharma, and lack of responsibility for the safety of approved drugs… as we all found out the hard way.
joseph49853 says:
Those in this [hairlosstalk.com] forum who trust the FDA and big pharma so implicitly with their lives especially need to watch this. The real debate over side-effects only truly commences with drug approval and real-world usage, not during mostly limited clinical studies. There just seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about the history and importance of FDA Medwatch monitoring system. And it’s becoming increasing apparent just how broken is the entire approval and reporting process.
This documentary will do a lot more to increase the quality of discourse than a bunch of repetitive pharma-jargon revolving around glorified drug pamphlets. The world already has enough wide-eyed college-aged pharmaceutical representitives in training. I presented this a few times, but it has gotten overlooked.
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DOCUMENTARY VIDEO:
At the FDA’s offices outside Washington sits the office of Drug Safety, responsible for monitoring over 3,000 drugs on the market. Is it up to the task?
VIDEO PART 1:
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The withdrawal of the statin drug Baycol came two years after Bayer, its maker, first got reports of potential problems. For David Archer, it was too late.
VIDEO PART 2:
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Was the FDA’s approval of Redux – an updated version of Pondimin, one of the two diet drugs in Fen Phen – somehow “tainted”?
VIDEO PART 3:
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Why did it take so long for the world to learn about the dangers of the Fen Phen diet-drug combination?
VIDEO PART 4:
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A former FDA drug reviewer claims he was told to brush bad news about a drug “It happens all the time,” he says, something FDA officials deny.
VIDEO PART 5:
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When senior FDA drug reviewers are not allowed to present their concerns about a drug, critics say it shows the agency is in the pocket of the industry.
VIDEO PART 6:
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