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From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
Has anyone noticed that so often, you'll see a new product being advertised by pharmaceutical companies, only to see 2 years later that law firms are advertising to sue those companies because of the adverse side effects? The current one is for Yaz, the birth control drug that was supposed to reduce the number of periods that women have to once per year. There was just a commercial on by a law firm saying that "If youve taken Yaz and experienced liver damage, strokes or death, call ABC Attorneys". If you've experienced death, I doubt you'll be calling anyone. Avandia was another one and there's a lot more that I cant think of the names of the drugs.
Jeff Foxworthy does a hysterical bit about those kinds of drugs, saying that the side effects caused by taking them are way worse than the symptoms they're supposed to cure.
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| August 27, 2009, 17:33 |
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
I do not like pills, or medication.....I do understand that they are needed sometimes, but I think they are all pretty much poison and anything taken over any length of time is going to have some adverse effect on your body.
From what I've understand, Pharm companies decide on what diseases and conditions to focus on and cure by financial bottom line....how much it's worth, new drugs aren't manufactured and marketed by how bad the suffering is, if a disease is curable or safe to cure and treat, etc...but purely how much profit, just like any other business
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| August 27, 2009, 20:56 |
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
QUOTE (freensleazy @ August 27, 2009, 17:33)Has anyone noticed that so often, you'll see a new product being advertised by pharmaceutical companies, only to see 2 years later that law firms are advertising to sue those companies because of the adverse side effects? The current one is for Yaz, the birth control drug that was supposed to reduce the number of periods that women have to once per year. There was just a commercial on by a law firm saying that "If youve taken Yaz and experienced liver damage, strokes or death, call ABC Attorneys". If you've experienced death, I doubt you'll be calling anyone. Avandia was another one and there's a lot more that I cant think of the names of the drugs.
Jeff Foxworthy does a hysterical bit about those kinds of drugs, saying that the side effects caused by taking them are way worse than the symptoms they're supposed to cure.
--------and now you know WHY I don't go to doctors.
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| August 28, 2009, 05:49 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
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Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
It's true, the pharmaceutical companies are running the show. They direct or provide incentives for the doctor's to push their medications. The doctor's may know little or nothing about what they are prescribing.
Then there are the interactions between all the medications. I use to work for an insurance company. I would then hire another company whom documented all of a client's medication, frequency of use, and interactions to verify if it need to be changed.
One person was taking 24 medications. She died at age 52. We kept her file open for a few months in case a death suit was filed.
The horrible thing, as an insurance rep. the attorney's would petition me for the authorization of these medications. If I did not authorize, then they could take it to the judge and then our company would pay for the meds, the attorney, and fines.
Now, I see some of the meds I've had to authorize noted as dangerous... So, now I was wrong in authorizing what their attorney petition me to authorize.
Hope I did not go too far  Once again, it's the money making the decisions, no matter whom it affects.
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| August 28, 2009, 10:55 |
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Mooant
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New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
Yes its true that money runs the world, but there are reasons why these companies are working the way that they do. I hope to one day get involved in this so I've taken the time to learn everything involved, and not just looking at the public's viewpoint.
The average cost of developing a drug is in the 10's of millions, and is rapidly reaching the hundreds of millions. Not only is it because the research materials and devices are getting increasingly expensive, but the fact that these drugs take over ten years to develop and almost another ten years to get FDA approval. So these pills that are just coming out, like YAZ, they're basically someone's entire career.
Lately, its taking a little less time to get FDA approval, I think the average is being reduced down to five years for the approval process. During this time they do specific waves of animal testing. Rats or Mice to expose any carcinogenic effects (Cancer Causing), Pigs to expose any Cardiovascular and hepatic encephalopathy effects(blood borne and liver damaging) and then a few more waves or animal testing the is dependent on the effect of the drug. Each animal is selected because the systems in question are either tightly controlled (genetic structure of the Rats or Mice) or are almost indistinguishable from the human body as far as effects go (Pigs are actually more similar to humans than monkeys in their systemic structure and reactions, specifically the liver and blood system).
Then comes clinical trials, where a good portion of this medicine is given out, not only for free, but people are paid to take it. This is supposed to be the ultimate test for if a medicine is safe or not, but can only be done after doing those countless animal experiments.
My whole point, to put it bluntly, is it costs a hell of a lot of money to make a drug, so for these companies to bother developing one that isn't going to be used by a good portion of the population, they're going to go bankrupt. Usually the side effects listed during the commercials don't happen, but will sometimes happen is that there are unaccounted for side effects that slip through testing because of unexpected drug reactions to common drugs, or a certain common mutation in the public DNA wasn't part of the clinical trials, or the clinical trials were too short term to expose any long term effects, or the medicine destabilizes in transport, or God just hates that medicine for no reason....
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| August 28, 2009, 13:20 |
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
Uh-oh...Pfizer's gotta pay a bit of money, misrepresenting a drug or two of theirs (haven't read the full story yet....)
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| September 4, 2009, 13:19 |
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hardandwild07
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Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
A HUGE amount of health problems can be treated or cured with natural herbs as they have been done for centuries, but since plants that grow wild can't be patented, the drug companies get the FDA to outlaw them for use. Too many chemicals in everything we consume, the air we breathe, and the water we drink (public water systems don't even check for drugs in the water they say is safe) is the cause of most ailments today, but as long as big pharma, and factory farms can profit from them, the FDA will approve them, regardless of human lives at stake. Profit above human life. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
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| September 5, 2009, 00:27 |
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Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
The one drug being advertised lately that really does annoy me...Latisse....
It's a presription (topical) drug with the usual long list of possible side effects, all just to have longer eye lashes.
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| September 10, 2009, 13:12 |
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hardandwild07
65 / couple
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
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Re: Re: From Miracle Drug to Lawsuit
QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 10, 2009, 13:12)The one drug being advertised lately that really does annoy me...Latisse....
It's a presription (topical) drug with the usual long list of possible side effects, all just to have longer eye lashes.
and when you stop using it, your eyelashes go back the way they were! Talk about a waste of money!! 
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| September 10, 2009, 22:38 |
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