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 "Food and Drug Administration safety expert david graham estimates that as many as sixty thousand people died from taking Vioxx. That's more deaths than Americans sustained in the Vietnam War.
Throughout the current debate over prescription drugs, Vioxx has become the poster child for everything that's wrong with both the pharmaceutical industry and the agency that is supposed to regulate it. The FDA approved Vioxx knowing there was the possibility that the drug caused heart attacks."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "On November 18, 2004, FDA scientist david graham created a firestorm of controversy by telling a Senate committee that Accutane should be studied for possible withdrawal. On November 23 the FDA announced it would require prescribers, patients, and pharmacies to register for Accutane and women to test negative for pregnancy and demonstrate a one-month history of being on two forms of birth control before getting a prescription. Now you, your doctor, and your pharmacist have to be registered on a computer (www.ipledgeprogram."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "According to david graham, "FDA is inherently biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry. It views industry as its client, whose interests it must represent and advance. It views its primary mission as approving as many drugs as it can, regardless of whether the drugs are safe or needed."152
FDA's effective transfer of governing control to its primary regulatees is an act of corruption. FDA political appointees manipulate public resources for the aggrandizement and riches of pharmaceutical companies (and ultimately themselves) at the expense of American liberty, property, and life."- Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) |
| "David Graham, associate director for science in the FDA, was quoted as saying he faced stiff resistance to reporting his findings regarding the increased dangers of heart disease and stroke associated with Vioxx.
Would it surprise you to know Merck (manufacturer of Vioxx) spent more in 2002 and the first six months of 2003 for lobbying than 11 others in the Dirty Dozen? ("The Dirty Dozen" —12 major drug companies and the obscene amounts spent on lobbying in 2002 and first half of 2003 show in Table 1 below)." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "According to FDA safety officer david graham, MD, as many as 40,000 people may have died.76
The Broken Promise
If COX-2 inhibitors like Vioxx, Bextra, and Celebrex had truly protected the digestive tract from damage, it might have been easier to justify their approval, aggressive marketing tactics, and high prices. But an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association described the science behind COX-2 inhibitors as a "house of cards" based on wishful thinking. They were marketed "with unrealistic expectations about pain relief, marked gastrointestinal protection, and safety."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "FDA safety officer david graham, MD, estimated that 30,000 to 40,000 people may have died as a 1 S consequence. In Senate hearings, Dr. Graham declared, "I would argue that the FDA as currently configured is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless. It is important that this committee and the American people understand that what has happened with Vioxx is really a symptom of something far more dangerous to the safety of the American people. Simply put, FDA and its Center for Drug Evaluation and Research are broken." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
 "Interview with Dr. david graham, senior drug safety researcher and FDA whistleblower: www.NewsTarget.com/011401 .html, http://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Vioxx#Withdrawal
6. Death By Medicine analysis: www.LEF.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm
7. Death by Medicine: www.LEF.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm
Prescription drugs are not required for human health. If they were, don't you think our bodies would have evolved a way to manufacture them?"- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Dr. david graham, Associate Director for Science and Medicine, FDA "[The] FDA lacks clear and effective processes for making decisions about, and providing management oversight of, post-market [drug] safety issues." -The U. S. General Accountability Office (GAO), April 2006 report The most influential organization in health care today is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The roots of this organization are found in the 1920s, when it was called the Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration. The name was shortened to the Food and Drug Administration in 1930." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Headed by Dr. david graham (who later gained fame as the whistleblower on Vioxx) and dubbed, "The Termites," this group realized the drug was a public health hazard and began to meticulously document the scientific facts surrounding the dangers of the drug. Using bluntly-worded emails and irrefutable scientific evaluation of the drug's risks, they had to bombard the higher-ups in the FDA bureaucracy in an effort to get the drug banned and protect the American people. But FDA's senior officials, most notably Dr. Murray M." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "FDA Veteran david graham Speaks Out on the Drug Safety
19 Congressional Testimony of David J. Graham, MD, MPH, before Senate Finance Committee on Vioxx,
THE GENERIC DRUG QUANDARY: QUESTIONS ABOUT QUALITY
When most people think about getting the best bang for their prescription buck, generic drugs come immediately to mind. By substituting a generic drug for a brand-name product, it is possible to save hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year. For example, the antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) can cost more than $280 for a 1-month supply of 40-milligram pills." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
 "Food and Drug Administration safety expert david graham estimates that as many as sixty thousand people died from taking Vioxx. That's more deaths than Americans sustained in the Vietnam War.
Throughout the current debate over prescription drugs, Vioxx has become the poster child for everything that's wrong with both the pharmaceutical industry and the agency that is supposed to regulate it. The FDA approved Vioxx knowing there was the possibility that the drug caused heart attacks."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "David Graham, MD FDA Drug Scientist
INTRODUCTION
Every semester I surprise many students (perhaps shock or anger are even more accurate terms) as I share facts related to the FDA's drug approval process. Most students, like most Americans, assume that if a drug has been approved by the FDA, it is both safe and effective. That was an assumption I also presumed to be true at one time. However, the research on many FDA-approved drugs led me to realize that I, too, had been fooled."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "The wall begins to crumble
But the real earthquake to hit the world of medicines regulation came in the summer of 2004, when first Professor Eric Topol, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, spoke to the New York Times, and then, Dr david graham, an FDA official, supported him by telling a US Senate hearing in October 2004 that his agency's approval of Vioxx had led to the 'single greatest drug safety catastrophe in the history of this country or the history of the world'."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "After the APPROVe trial had been stopped, and after the New York Times article, Dr david graham, an FDA official, also went public with his fears. This was in October 2004 and the question quickly became how long had people known Vioxx wasn't as safe as everyone believed. Topol was once again an outspoken critic, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, that had the 'many warning signs along the way been heeded, such a debacle could have been prevented' and criticizing the 'chance' nature by which the APPROVe study revealed the cardiovascular risk." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "Apparently the National Institute of Mental Health is also conducting pediatric studies regarding antipsychotics, but the research is mainly funded and supervised by pharmaceutical companies, (and you know that that means). david graham of the FDA Office of Drug Safety agrees with previous findings, saying "Industry-funded trials are four to five times more likely than independent studies to show effectiveness for a drug" (http://www.usatodav.com/news/health/2006-05-01-adult-antipsychotics-kids x.htm)."- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
| "Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from Cox-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. david graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval.
The Lancet, 2004; Volume 364, Number 9450, December 2004
Perhaps the most relevant criticism of the agency comes from Dr. Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, a well-respected medical journal. Dr." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
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