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--- new study criticizes painkiller MARKETING
Knowing people might die..... Zee "But is Celebrex really easier on the stomach? The Journal of the American Medical Association said so four years ago. A six-month study paid for by the makers of Celebrex, showed fewer ulcers and stomach troubles than Ibuprofen. Celebrex's reputation was locked in and global sales climbed to $3 billion. But in fact, a lot - like half the study - was left out of that glowing journal article. "The truth is it was not a six-month study, it was a 12-month study," says Dr. John Abramson of Harvard Medical School." Abramson says that unreported second half of the study told an entirely different story, one most doctors never heard. "In the second six months, the patients who took Celebrex had far more serious gastrointestinal complications than patients who took the older drugs," says Abramson. " http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/24/eveningnews/main668878.shtml
NSAIDs are simply the most deadly class of medication. http://www.healthsentinel.com/files/research/WordFile/ToxicAndDeadlyNSAIDs.doc http://www.healthsentinel.com/files/research/PDFFile/ToxicAndDeadlyNSAIDs.pdf
Roman Bystrianyk wrote: > NSAIDs are simply the most deadly class of medication. LOL Where do you people come from? :-) -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. To jump to the end of the story, as a result of this I need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/
spodosaurus wrote: > Roman Bystrianyk wrote: > > NSAIDs are simply the most deadly class of medication. > LOL > > Where do you people come from? :-) I'm not sure that there's a single source. Some of them might actually be well-intentioned fools who have been inspired by Ralph Nader's long history of consumer advocacy and see themselves as "saving" us from the dangers of using medications that might improve our lives. Personally, however, given what I read elsewhere on Usenet my bet is that these are closet anarchists and Libertarians who want to attack our access to medicine by pointing out that more people have died due to complications of NSAID- class drugs the past few years than from all of the illegal drugs combined. They don't give a darn about the fact that there's an obvious difference between taking informed risks in order to seek out medical benefits, and their desire to use drugs for "recreation". The question of origin really resolves down to whether you believe these people are acting out of motives of altruism or selfishness. Altruism does exist in the world, and it leads people to do marvelous things, but selfishness is far more common and far more plausible to me when I see somebody making a really pathetic argument that "Oooo those medicines are SO RISKY..." Well duh. Nobody but a fool should believe that ANY medicine is 100% safe and effective. -- Nathan Engle Computer Support, IUB Psych Dept nengle@indiana.edu http://mypage.iu.edu/~nengle "Some Assembly Required"
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." Anatole France Nathan Engle wrote: > spodosaurus wrote: > > Roman Bystrianyk wrote: > > > NSAIDs are simply the most deadly class of medication. > > > LOL > > > > Where do you people come from? :-) > > I'm not sure that there's a single source. Some of them > might actually be well-intentioned fools who have been > inspired by Ralph Nader's long history of consumer advocacy > and see themselves as "saving" us from the dangers of using > medications that might improve our lives. > > Personally, however, given what I read elsewhere on Usenet > my bet is that these are closet anarchists and Libertarians > who want to attack our access to medicine by pointing out > that more people have died due to complications of NSAID- > class drugs the past few years than from all of the illegal > drugs combined. They don't give a darn about the fact that > there's an obvious difference between taking informed risks > in order to seek out medical benefits, and their desire to > use drugs for "recreation". > > The question of origin really resolves down to whether you > believe these people are acting out of motives of altruism > or selfishness. Altruism does exist in the world, and it > leads people to do marvelous things, but selfishness is > far more common and far more plausible to me when I see > somebody making a really pathetic argument that "Oooo > those medicines are SO RISKY..." > > Well duh. Nobody but a fool should believe that ANY medicine > is 100% safe and effective. > > -- > Nathan Engle Computer Support, IUB Psych Dept > nengle@indiana.edu http://mypage.iu.edu/~nengle > "Some Assembly Required" 1 2 Next » Related Discussion: Desperate for Help?? (3 posts) management of insulin and food (6 posts) Chromium.Vital to Diabetics (2 posts) amqgriukfs (1 posts) Top Discussions From Our Archives Any Insights to Companys that give free glucose meters Waterfall D-Mannose for Bladder Infections Risk Of Chronic Heart Failure With Insulin Sensitizers Obesity Treatment: The Key to Managing the Type 2 Diabetes Time bomb? Other Discussion Categories Diabetes Symptoms Health Care Policy
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