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Two Die After Taking the Drug Rituxan (by Genentech) to Treat "Off-Label" Condition
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Two Die After Taking the Drug Rituxan (by Genentech) to Treat "Off-Label" Condition
PeterB wrote: Read all about it he http://watersidesyndication.com/healthnews/?p=84 This has got to make you think about the world the FDA lives in: **** Consumer health advocate Mike Adams said the patients' deaths highlight the consequences of the FDA's allowance of rampant off-label prescribing. "The fact that any FDA-approved drug can be legally prescribed for literally any health condition whatsoever - including those for which it has never been tested - makes a mockery of the so-called scientific medicine systems operating today," Adams said. "It is beyond explanation that a perfectly safe herb cannot be legally prescribed for any condition, yet a dangerous drug can be legally prescribed for every condition. This is not a system of medicine; it is a system of pro-pharmaceutical dogma in which patients' lives are put at risk by overzealous marketing and prescribing of drugs," he said. *** TC |
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Two Die After Taking the Drug Rituxan (by Genentech) to Treat "Off-Label" Condition
In message .com, TC wrote:
"The fact that any FDA-approved drug can be legally prescribed for literally any health condition whatsoever - including those for which it has never been tested - makes a mockery of the so-called scientific medicine systems operating today," Adams said. "It is beyond explanation that a perfectly safe herb cannot be legally prescribed for any condition, yet a dangerous drug can be legally prescribed for every condition. This is not a system of medicine; it is a system of pro-pharmaceutical dogma in which patients' lives are put at risk by overzealous marketing and prescribing of drugs," he said. So you're proposing that the same rules apply to both synthetic and natural drugs? That both be prescribable only by MDs, that the MDs be allowed to prescribe only for the conditions that the substances were tested for, and that the same standards of safety and efficacy be required before either can be marketed? -- | Bogus as it might seem, people, this really is a deliverable | | e-mail address. Of course, there isn't REALLY a lumber cartel. | | There isn't really a Santa Claus, but try www.santaclaus.com. | +--------------- D. C. Sessions --------------+ |
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Two Die After Taking the Drug Rituxan (by Genentech) to Treat "Off-Label" Condition
PeterB wrote: Read all about it he http://watersidesyndication.com/healthnews/?p=84 Problem is that even taking medicines for the indicated uses carries a risk. Physicians should not be limited to using a drug for its indicated use, but they become liable legally if they prescribe it for some other use and problems occur, so many do not go there. If the problem occurs due to recommended prescribing standards, it becomes the drug company and not the physician who can be sued. Of course patients could try also suing the physician, but they would lose. There are many such cases. Another common case is the use of chloral hydrate, which is a very safe sedative. Many dentists use the drug as a hypnotic however doubling or tripling the dose in order to get noncooperative children to stop fussing during dental treatment so much. The thing is, once there is documentation of a problem, the prescribing for other uses should stop. dkw |
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Two Die After Taking the Drug Rituxan (by Genentech) to Treat "Off-Label" Condition
wrote: PeterB wrote: Read all about it he http://watersidesyndication.com/healthnews/?p=84 Problem is that even taking medicines for the indicated uses carries a risk. Physicians should not be limited to using a drug for its indicated use, but they become liable legally if they prescribe it for some other use and problems occur, so many do not go there. If the problem occurs due to recommended prescribing standards, it becomes the drug company and not the physician who can be sued. Of course patients could try also suing the physician, but they would lose. There are many such cases. Another common case is the use of chloral hydrate, which is a very safe sedative. Many dentists use the drug as a hypnotic however doubling or tripling the dose in order to get noncooperative children to stop fussing during dental treatment so much. The thing is, once there is documentation of a problem, the prescribing for other uses should stop. dkw Do you think if a patient dies or becomes severely disabled after a doctor prescribes a drug for uses "not indicated" that such a doctor might be "cured" of such stupidity? What does the fact that FDA permits such idiocy tell you about its relationship to the drug makers? PeterB |
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