Enjoy playing Russian Roulette the next time you take your meds. Thanks to little oversight from the FDA, you're on the clock..
Business interests and profits are now trumping safety in the medications and their oversight millions take everyday.
This really doesn't come as a shock given the love for all things business from the Bush White House and the do nothing, rubber stamp Congress.
Doing things to keep the economy growing and vibrant is one thing.
Doing things that put people in danger all in the name of profits is a completely different monster.
One, that according to a recent released report is spinning out of control..
The federal system for approving and regulating drugs is in serious disrepair, and a host of dramatic changes are needed to fix the problem, a blue-ribbon panel of government advisers concluded yesterday in a long-awaited report.
The analysis by the Institute of Medicine shined an unsparing spotlight on the erosion of public confidence in the Food and Drug Administration, an agency that holds sway over a quarter of the U.S. economy. The report, requested by the FDA itself, found that Congress, agency officials and the pharmaceutical industry share responsibility for the problems -- and bear the burden for implementing solutions.
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