Someone posted a link to Congressional hearings about Vioxx. You can
download the hearings with that link; check the archives. It is
appalling to see and hear the testimony of the FDA's own scientists,
who clearly, unambiguously recommended disapproval of the drug. They
knew it would cause heart attacks, and in the hearings estimated deaths
of at least 100,000 persons who took the drug.
Yet the FDA commissioner recently called, in an online ad for a
pharmaceutical convention, for closer ties between the FDA and drug
companies. He and a scientist from Merck were the top two featured
speakers.
On Thursday, Apr 21, 2005, at 10:23 Asia/Tokyo, Richard Harris wrote:
Also, I believe the FDA bases it's highly prejudicial ideas and edicts
on the recommendations of their on-staff Doctors and the information
of the Pharmaceutical Companies that manufacture the new items and in
the cases of NSAIDS such as: Vioxx; Bextra and Celebrex the FDA
discovers that essential information has been intentionally withheld
by the Companies.
