Posted by cecilia on October 13, 2006, at 4:53:09
In reply to Public Citizen » Squiggles, posted by Squiggles on October 11, 2006, at 15:37:48
Public Citizen and the drug companies are on opposite extremes. The drug companies say every new drug is wonderful, the more expensive the better. Public Citizen is always trying to remove things from the market because of rare side effects. (For example Serzone, which can cause liver damage in some people but is also the only AD that works for some people, who are more than willing to risk the liver damage.) Like all extremes, there needs to be somewhere in the middle to meet, more research, better informing people of possible side effects, but not snatching things from the market because some people have problems with them. Cecilia
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