I have heard that the drug manufactures lobby to congress is very strong and very generous with its money (bribes??). Did Vioxx, FDA approved, cause several thousand deaths??
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The FDA has the most miserable record of monitoring for safe and unsafe medicines in the world. Vioxx and thalidomide come to mind but they also approved tobacco (as being harmless???).
The lethal toxicity of Tylenol has been known since at least 1975 when it appeared in the most prominent Pharmacology book by Goodman & Gilman. The Chinese took note of this and it has been illegal to import Tylenol into China for many years.
There have been repeated stories in medical journals of Tylenol’s toxicity and lethality frequently since 1975. It was in Time magazine December 20, 2006. I guess nobody at the FDA reads medical articles OR TIME.
About 200 million patients use Tylenol each year. The advertisements say “It won’t cause stomach bleeding”. Well no, but Tylenol severely damages the liver (lethally), the heart causing infarcts and congestive heart failure, strokes and severe blood clotting problems. There are certainly more.
Whether it kills only 200 patients per year, I don’t know right now. About 27% of Tylenol poisoned patients die without a liver transplant which costs at least $50,000. Besides that Tylenol toxicity is responsible for about 56,000 ER visits and 100,000 calls to poison control centers each year.
Tylenol is everywhere. It by itself is in 100 over the counter forms and about 600 products in everything but drain cleaner which doesn’t kill as many patients.
Aspirin was the first minor pain killer. It was discovered, manufactured and sold by Bayer Pharmaceuticals since about 1880. They had the controlling patents. Other companies tried to horn in which resulted in several “me too” type products. Most of them were too toxic to be used. TYLENOL WAS THE LEAST TOXIC but with its known toxicity from at least 1975 how did it manage to stay in drug stores?
I have heard that the drug manufactures lobby to congress is very strong and very generous with its money (bribes??). Did Vioxx, FDA approved, cause several thousand deaths??
IT IS ABOUT TIME OUR CONGRESS DID SOMETHING. HOW MANY WERE ON SOMEBODIES PAYROLL? HOW MANY TOOK TYLENOL?? IT’S DANGEROUS WITH ALCOHOL.
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