Reply #29: Health Canada suspended adderral a year ago

[depakid]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=19972

Now the FDA has now issued its report and wants to "study" the issue:

The FDA has asked its Drug Safety and Risk Management advisory committee to discuss the feasibility of different ways of studying whether the deaths are linked to use of the drugs, as well as specific ways of conducting such studies.

That earned the FDA a rebuke from Sen. Chuck Grassley, who contended such work should have already begun.

In a letter sent Monday to acting FDA commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Grassley said in part, "I remain concerned that while both psychiatric and cardiovascular risk signals have cropped up across this class of drugs this past year, it appears that FDA is just now beginning to 'discuss approaches' for studying these risks."

Yet another reason why I keep telling everyone not to take anything the FDA says at face value anymore. No one in the public health community does.

It's very sad. The FDA was once the most respected health agency in the world- before the Republicans and conservative Dems (including Clinton) "deregulated" it -famous for its precautionary measures- which protected American mothers against the horrors of Thalidomide.

If you need accurate and timely information about the drugs you're taking or considering taking, look to Health Canada:

http://www.napra.org/

The British MHRA:

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=246

or the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC):

http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/adec/adec.htm