100.000 people die each year from mis-prescribed drugs!

I just heard Dr. Sidney Wolf on Democracy Now! He said that the FDA routinely yields to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry to market drugs even when there is a cheaper and safer alternative available. Check out the web site at: www.worstpills.org

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Worstpills.org is researched, written, and maintained by Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, a division of Public Citizen. Public Citizen is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. The Health Research Group, headed by consumer advocate Dr. Sidney Wolfe, works for research-based, system-wide changes in health care policy.

but there you go.


Do not use ( among others):

ACTOS

ARICEPT

AVANDIA

BEXTRA

CELEBREX

CRESTOR

DARVON

DARVON-N

glucosamine and chondroitin

MERIDIA

MOBIC

SERZONE

SINGULAIR

TRICOR

TUSSIONEX

ULTRACET

ULTRAM

VIOXX

YASMIN

pledge:

http://www.nofreelunch.org/

He was absolutely astonished when I told him I was on Crestor and took me off of it poste-haste.

I LIKE this guy!

those aren't prescription drugs, you can get them in a health food/vitamin store.

They're wonderful for joint pain and arthritis - a natural alternative to prescription drugs.

www.worstpills.org

The book (Worst Pills/ Best Pills) is supposed to explain why - maybe the website does if you subscribe.

I've noticed other health professionals cautioning about different health food store types of things, I don't know much about it myself.

The drug companies like it just the way it is

poor antioxidant status, hormonal imbalance, viral challenge, toxicity and other conditions that lead to persons being put on drugs that have little or nothing to do with their real situation can be found at these links.

www.nutritionfocus.com

www.lef.org

www.vitaminshoppe.com

www.efamol.com

www.martekbio.com

www.naturesplus.com

www.alternativemedicine.com

www.diagnose-me.com

www.doctoryourself.com

...doctors or pharmacists may be at fault for prescribing the wrong medications. What is really happening is that the medical professionals as well as the public are being mis-lead and even criminally deceived into believing that certain new drugs are safe and effective when in fact the drug manufacturers know they are not!

for every little damn cold somebody has. Colds are caused by VIRUSES and antibiotics kill BACTERIA. All they are doing is creating mutant strains of bacteria that are resistant to any medicine.


taught.

...whether from a virus or some other germs, the immune systems are compromised and bacterial infections are more likely to occur. So to avoid throat and sinus and ear infections and the like, doctors will prescribe antibiotics to help fight those potential infections. I don't have a problem with that. The best thing when we get sick of course is to take time off, rest, eat properly and let our bodies do the natural healing. That's where my homemade chicken soup comes in.

...is like dropping bombs on POTENTIAL enemies.

Both become self-fulfilling prophecies eventually; orders of magnitude greater than the original "potential" problem.

...your source of that prognosis?

Try as I might, I could not get ANY of my physicians to take me off of Crestor until him.

or they wouldn't be on the market.

Wolfe (see Democracynow.org) suggests people not use a drug for 7 years - because they aren't tested all that much. And now - even when they are - the drugs are allowed to be on the market even with deadly affects because of how much money the FDA gets from pharmaceutical companys.

My father - as a physician - often had to get people off whatever medications they were on because so many people would be on more than they needed - before he could start treating them.

Cause we can sue them, right? What, we can't anymore?

bush's pharmaceutical pals kill 100,000 EVERY YEAR!!! That's more dead in CALIFORNIA every year than the number who died in the 911 attacks!

WAR!!! WAR!!! WAR!!!