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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Jenny Hatch
It may be offensive to you as a health care worker, but if people were dropping like flies eating vitamin C, you can bet the FDA would be all over it, banning this important nutrient as if it were rat poison.
The pattern of the pharma companies is they ride a new drug out as long as they can until the lawsuits start piling up and public outcry gets to be so bad they can't stifle it any longer, and then they pull the drug.
Remember, it was Eli Lily that gave us LSD and PCP. It took an act of congress to get those drugs (Which had been hailed as cures for alcoholism, mental illness and were being given to birthing women all over america - during their births) pulled from the marketplace.
The CDC calls it accidental death, I call it murder.
Have you heard of the drug cytotec? It is being used all over the world to induce labor in pregnant women, yet the FDA has not approved this ulcer drug for use on pregnant women. The docs use it because it is cheap and it produces these overwhelming contractions. The nurses call it Cytoblast because of the effect it has on labor.
This drug has been the cause of uterine ruptures in mothers who have not even had a c-section because it is so powerful. Mothers and babies are dying because of its use. WHO is going to stop the use of it, if the doctors feel free to use any drug they want without it even being approved? This is one of the main reasons I give birth at home. Some doctors will come in and put some of it on a womans cervix without even telling her what it is. No informed consent, the only thing she knows is that her labor just became so painful she wants to die.
Jenny
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I don't think the FDA will approvefor that usage based on the FDA's own warnings:
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CYTOTEC (MISOPROSTOL) ADMINISTRATION TO WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT CAN CAUSE ABORTION, PREMATURE BIRTH, OR BIRTH DEFECTS. UTERINE RUPTURE HAS BEEN REPORTED WHEN CYTOTEC WAS ADMINISTERED IN PREGNANT WOMEN TO INDUCE LABOR OR TO INDUCE ABORTION BEYOND THE EIGHTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY (see also PRECAUTIONS, and LABOR AND DELIVERY). CYTOTEC SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN BY PREGNANT WOMEN TO
REDUCE THE RISK OF ULCERS INDUCED BY NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS) (See CONTRAINDICATIONS, WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS). PATIENTS MUST BE ADVISED OF THE ABORTIFACIENT PROPERTY AND WARNED NOT TO GIVE THE DRUG TO OTHERS.
Cytotec should not be used for reducing the risk of NSAID-induced ulcers in women of childbearing potential unless the patient is at high risk of complications from gastric ulcers associated with use of the NSAID, or is at high risk of developing gastric ulceration. In such patients, Cytotec may be prescribed if the patient
· has had a negative serum pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to beginning therapy.
· is capable of complying with effective contraceptive measures.
· has received both oral and written warnings of the hazards of misoprostol, the risk of possible contraception failure, and the danger to other women of childbearing potential should the drug be taken by mistake.
· will begin Cytotec only on the second or third day of the next normal menstrual period.
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In today's world of lawyers, I cannot see any doctor in the United States freely giving this without any thought or consent. I'm having a hard time understanding your ulcer claim since:
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Information for patients: Women of childbearing potential using Cytotec to decrease the risk of NSAID induced ulcers should be told that they must not be pregnant when Cytotec therapy is initiated, and they must use an effective contraception method while taking Cytotec.
See boxed WARNINGS.
Cytotec is intended for administration along with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including aspirin, to decrease the chance of developing an NSAID-induced gastric ulcer.
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Quite a broad definition of murder. Definitely an emotional response to garner attention since it isn't under any definition I understand. I may understand if you followed your blog doctors and called it manslaughter. Murder needs to have intent. Drug companies are not in the business of intentionally killing their customers.
I agree that the FDA approval process needs to be strengthened. The phamacueticals have lobbied for less stringent processes since it is an extremely competitive marketplace.
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