This just goes to show how poor things are in the UK for endocrinology and sexual issues for men.
musclechatroom.com/forum/showthread.php?18821-The-End-of-a-dam-good-Forum-in-the-UK.
andropause.org.uk/newforum/forum_frameset.htm
We really are facing an uphill battle trying to get anywhere with out personal investigations as to what has gone wrong with the NHS. Just read some of the posts on the forum, if you can - it’s a shocking format.
why this shut down?
Funny how that fat liberal guy who does dicumentraries like “Sicko” can portray that as optimal healthcare…
Can’t this be challenged under whatever the UK’s version of the first amendment is? Seems like violation of free speech to me
Well our country certainly has failings when it comes to healthcare. The FDA was asleep at the wheel and their job is to protect us from drugs like finasteride. How the hell they found it to be safe is completely beyond me.
The FDA isn’t big enough or funded well enough to deal with their duties.
Maybe a little merck “funding” helped get finasteride through.
Merck’s funding can be called anything but little…
Merck uses stealth lobbying efforts to avoid publicly stating lobbying funds spent:
usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-13-lobbying-disclosures-companies_N.htm
Merck’s lobbying spends increasing on average 100% per year for the last three years:
shearlingsplowed.blogspot.com/2011/08/merck-lobby-spend-is-way-up-36-percent.html
Merck pays $20 million US to doctors in 2010 to speak about their drugs:
shearlingsplowed.blogspot.com/2011/09/merck-paid-over-20-million-in-2010-to.html
Needless to say this is probably only the tip of the iceberg and a lot of the funding will be funneled into trade associations which do the lobbying directly for Merck but does not need to be reported as such.
For a further understanding of how Merck works with the FDA read “All the justice money can buy” by Snigdha Prakash.
I hate seeing articles like that. Almost as much as i hate thinking about the fact that finasteride was created based on the studies of eunuchs.