Quotes about Vioxx Scandal from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The German newspaper Der Spiegel stated that, with the vioxx scandal, the reputation of the FDA is gone. And he asks the question: are the managers of the FDA working too closely together with the pharmaceutical industry? The tests are too short; sometimes a new medication is put on the market after only a few months.
Vioxx again? Well what has happened with our highly acclaimed Vioxx medication? During the research for this book, the number of cases that reported horrible side effects from this medication continued to rise."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "Despite all this, White House chief of staff Andrew Card said in 2004 (in the wake of the vioxx scandal, no less) that the FDA was doing a "spectacular job."39
Given both a lack of resources and the fact that what resources it has are under political influence, the FDA's power to regulate the drug industry is surprisingly limited. For example, the agency reviews only a small percentage of the drug commercials that air on television. The FDA says, quite rightly, it doesn't have the resources to review the 54,000 drug promotions a year that come its way."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "When the vioxx scandal went public in late 2004, literally millions of people in the United States, and around the world, panicked about which drug they should choose to treat arthritis pain. The debate in the popular press then became, "Which drug is the next best choice? Should it be Celebrex? Should people use over-the-counter ibuprofen?" The advice from the health authorities was to talk to your doctor about what options were available, and it implied that those options were only other drugs.
The question was really about which drug to switch to."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "Now, to their credit, a few of these magazines are starting to report on the negative information coming out on these drug companies: The vioxx scandal, the problems with COX-2 inhibitors, the problem with antidepressant drugs and so on; but it was precisely these magazines' promotions of these drugs, and the hype surrounding the drugs, that led to the creation of the problems in the first place. It was direct-to-consumer advertising that caused the excess of propaganda and over-prescription of these drugs." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "If it weren't for direct-to-consumer advertising, we never would have had the vioxx scandal we are seeing today. We never would have had skyrocketing sales of Viagra, Bextra or Celebrex ?drugs that consumers are now demanding from their doctors. It is the FDA that has created an environment in which dangerous drugs can flourish. A campaign to discredit alternative medicine At the same time, the FDA has sought to discredit or outright outlaw natural medicine. There is an ongoing campaign to abolish herbal medicine from the vocabulary of U.S. doctors and patients." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "For comparison, regulated pharmaceutical drugs cause over 100,000 needless deaths annually from side effects caused by their proper use drugs and Public Citizen warns there are 181 unsafe or ineffective prescription drugs on the market. The vioxx scandal only served to reveal that the FDA approves relatively unsafe drugs that increase mortality rates. The flawed regulatory model should not be used for dietary supplements.
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 "The fact is no disease control agency or Federal Drug Administration (FDA) can protect you from developing a serious illness or dying as a result of using prescribed drugs. The vioxx scandal of September 2004 has taught us that no safe drugs are out there. VIOXX, a leading arthritis drug, was withdrawn by its producer, Merck & Co, after evidence leaked out that its use doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke. [As per the end of 2007, Merck was faced with 4,200 state and federal Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the U.S."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
| "Reputation of the FDA in Shambles after Vioxx Scandal; Calls for Wholesale FDA Reform, - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "This seems a little reminiscent of the vioxx scandal, except the media completely missed the significance of the research. And unlike Vioxx, which was only on the market for a couple of years, atenolol has been prescribed to tens of millions of hypertensive patients for decades.
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Q. I believe I have been a victim of over-medication. My doctor put me on Inderal for high blood pressure and later changed the prescription to meto-prolol and then to nadolol. I went through a living hell because I became severely depressed."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
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