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[UPDATE] The Inept 15 January

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[UPDATE] The Inept 15 January

Thought I'd post this cos it might be relevant:

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is the cure worse than the Illness? more defective drugs.
January 15th, 2006

Since its approval in September 1996, Zyprexa (olanzapine) has been used in the treatment of Schizophrenia and Manic phases of Bipolar Disorder.

On November 28, 2001, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter written by Dr. Elizabeth Koller, an FDA medical officer, Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a Duke University psychiatrist warning that according to FDA's MedWatch data, patients taking either olanzapine or clozapine were 10 times more likely to become diabetic than the general population. (1)

In March 2002, Robert Whitaker's book "Mad in America," arrives on bookstore shelves to chronicle how pharmaceutical companies would spin their research to get a favorable result and how high death rates and dangerous side effects were never mentioned to patients or their families. In the book Mr. Whitaker states "One in every 145 patients who entered the trials --for risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, and a fourth atypical called sertindole--died, and yet those deaths were never mentioned in the scientific literature." (2)

On May 21, 2004, a US Nationwide Class Action lawsuit was filed based on the serious side effects. In December of 2005, seven Illinois residents file a suit based on side effects from the drug.

Has the FDA done its job of protecting lives by approving Zyprexa? Are they doing their job by allowing it to remain on the market years after these side effects have become well known?

The Japanese Health and Welfare Ministry and the Great Britain Medicines Control Agency issued emergency Zyprexa warnings because of diabetes reports in 2002. (3) The FDA ordered Eli Lilly to issue warnings with the drug in late 2003, they were not communicated to physicians until 2004, and did not appear in the Physician's desk reference until 2005.

This drug has been on the market less than ten years and if it had been a medication for other illnesses such as arthritis or hypertension, not only would warnings have been publicly issued, but the drug would have been pulled from the pharmacy shelves until more studies could be done.

Why does the FDA allow the pharmaceutical companies to rush some drugs to market, yet delay acceptance of drugs for illnesses such as AIDS? If they gave the same scrutiny to the darlings of the Big Pharma companies as they do to drugs that are for those that are pushed to the edges of our society, fewer drugs would need to be recalled the way Vioxx was in the past year. If the FDA would talk to the agencies that are responsible for investigating drugs in other countries, they would have a larger body of work to draw their conclusions from and it would be easier to see the patients and harder to see the dollar signs with all the reports available. When will the FDA learn it is the patient's quality of life that is important, and that the patient should be given all the available information so that they can make a truly informed decision on their own healthcare.

Cassandra

sources - isthecureworse.txt (334b)

It sounds like these may be the drugs that Rasmussen was taking

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:43 am

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