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"Five million prescriptions have been written for ketek (telithromycin). Most common side effects are gastrointestinal: diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. Headache and disturbances in taste also occur. Less common side effects include palpitations, blurred vision, and rashes. According to a review of the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System, by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee, between July 2005 and September 2005 alone, there were two deaths, thirty-five adverse liver reactions, forty-four cardiac events, and eighty visual events in ketek patients." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The index case was a twenty-six-year-old man who took ketek for an upper respiratory tract infection. He died a horrible death from acute liver failure, bleeding out of every orifice. He left behind two kids. How do you think his physician felt? He prescribed the drug based on FDA's approval.132 In February 12, 2007 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, FDA's Dr. David J." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Thus, Vioxx entered the market and killed some 55,000 Americans (comparable to the number that were killed in the Vietnam war); ketek, Serevent, Rezulin, Redux, and a dozen others have entered the market causing scores to die and many more to suffer serious debilitating injuries. Nothing in the law stands in the way of repeat occurrences. We may thus expect into the foreseeable future that FDA will continue to approve for marketing drugs that the evidence indicates will impose risks that vastly exceed any provable benefit. As FDA Associate Director of the Office of Drug Safety Dr. David J." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Ross writes: A routine FDA inspection of the practices of the physician who enrolled the most patients—more than 400—[in the ketek drug safety study] uncovered fraud, including complete fabrication of patient enrollment. The inspector notified FDA criminal investigators, and the physician is currently serving a 57-month sentence in federal prison for her actions. Inspections of nine other sites enrolling high numbers of patients revealed serious violations of trial conduct, raising substantial concerns about the overall integrity of the study." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "He testified that FDA had approved the antibiotic drug ketek (telithromycin) "despite knowing that it could kill people from liver damage and that tens of millions of people would be exposed to it."119 He explained that he "was called into my division director['s office] and told to 'soften my re- 120 view.'" He said that when he "made scientific arguments, they were ignored when there was an economic argument for the com- 121 pany." FDA's lead medical officer for antimicrobial drug devel- opment and resistance initiatives, Dr." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Since other antibiotics can be used instead of ketek, I do not recommend its use. CHLORAMPHENICOL Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), which inhibits protein synthesis in bacteria, has a mechanism of action and side-effect profile that set it apart from other classes of antibiotics. It can also inhibit protein synthesis in bacterial and human mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell). This is why chloramphenicol can suppress blood-cell formation and, potentially, cause death; therefore it should be used as a last resort." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "According to a review of the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System, by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee, between July 2005 and September 2005 alone, there were two deaths, thirty-five adverse liver reactions, forty-four cardiac events, and eighty visual events in ketek patients. Sixty-one cases of abnormal vision were reported to the WHO." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The antibiotic ketek has been shown to damage the liver and sometimes cause death after a few doses...yet it is still prescribed today, to children. "Ketex is another example where the FDA accommodated a drug maker and turned a blind eye to serious safety Concerns." -U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, R-IOWA Following Graham's explosive findings, an FDA drug decision panel was convened. Rigged with officials who maintained financial ties to Warner-Lambert, the panel voted 11 to 1 in favor of keeping Rezulin on the market." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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