FDA zou de waakhond moeten zijn in de VS en moeten zien dat medicatie veilig is voor dat het op de markt komt maar de realiteit is anders.
Intressant artikel geplaatst op Harvard over de credibiliteit van de FDA:
https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/risk...not-be-trusted
The bar for “safe” is equally low, and over the past 30 years, approved drugs have caused an epidemic of harmful side effects, even when properly prescribed. Every week, about 53,000 excess hospitalizations and about 2400 excess deaths occur in the United States among people taking properly prescribed drugs to be healthier.
Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death.
This evidence indicates why we can no longer trust the FDA to carry out its historic mission to protect the public from harmful and ineffective drugs. Strong public demand that government “do something” about periodic drug disasters has played a central role in developing the FDA.2 Yet close, constant contact by companies with FDA staff and officials has contributed to vague, minimal criteria of what “safe” and “effective” mean.
Pharma bedrijven en FDA spelen onder één hoedje samen. Gevolg is dat FDA al talloze keren gefaald is in haar kerntaak om de patiënt te beschermen. Voorbeelden genoeg, Vioxx van Merck is er maar ééntje van.