When will drug companies stop watching profits and start watching safety?

Question

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between avandia and vioxx thats many dead americans. Because drug companies control the FDA we have these problems.

netjr thanks for the vote of optimism but in Vioxx and likely in this one the data was falsified. They left out cardiac mortality!!!

Answer 1

Never! You are right though, the FDA IS controlled by the drug companies, and they controll most of congress too. This is why we don't have a health care system in the US, because the drug co's would lose all that fat money they are sitting on! Others lives means nothing to them, and its obvious.

Answer 2

Again. Drug companies invest billions of dollars into research and development. It takes between 10 and 15 years to get a drug to the public. Patents only last about 7 years. Are they not entitled to make a profit from that time and effort so that they can start on another drug and start the whole process all over again. Capitalism. It works. Try it sometime.

Answer 3

Avandia, Vioxx.... what else? What else?? These men and women dedicate their careers to making the drugs that help people live better lives. If there are no "profits" where is the incentive to create?

Answer 4

how many hundreds of medications have been approved and not pulled off the market because of safety issues? of course they are concerned with safety. hundreds of medications never even make it to market thanks to animal testing (sorry PETA). I don't believe any medication is 100% safe all the time. even tylenol has a maximum of 4000mg, and can't be taken with alcohol. We have all these disease advocacy groups demanding a cure for everything, and yet we all rip on them when something is recalled. we can't have it both ways, with the innovation is risk. some people will have side effects, some unfortunately will die. that's the price we pay for demanding a drug for everything.

Answer 5

your doctor is stupid and you need a new one. before all this advertising of hpv started my cousin went to the doctor for warts which turned out to be hpv. My sister also has hpv and hers has progressed to cervical cancer. There is an immunization now that wasn't there for them. My daughter is 12 and a half and is not sexually active yet but for her 13th birthday we will be going to her first gyno appointment and she will be immunized. Hpv is very real and is very common. Dump your doctor and find one that cares about your well-being. Now i read other peoples answers to you and you'll notice that the ones who don't think that hpv is important can't even spell or put sentences together properly. I would guess that would mean they aren't very educated and their answers are very ill-informed.

Answer 6

Millions upon millions of people take drugs and "LIVE" thanks to those "EVIL" drug companies. They spend plenty on research and development so our lives might be better; but people like you would throw them down a rat whole because of a terrible mistake.

Answer 7

A lot of people who take these are going to die without them.

It is far better to die of a heart attack that I have a higher risk for than to die from an incurable disease.

Answer 8

Historically speaking, it has been EXTREMELY RARE for corporations to police themselves adequately without government regulation.

Answer 9

They wont becuase the FDA is just one more corrupt institution.

Answer 10

when laws exist that hold individuals responsible for their decisions that affect the public health and welfare. now they hide behind the fiction of corporate responsibility.