Friday, December 27, 2013

Brain Eating Zombies of the Year

So many choices...
Merck
Jazz
American Heart Association

I'm going with the FDA. For enabling all the others. 
Their sole mission now seems to be greasing the path for drug companies to get their chemicals into our circulatory systems.
FDA: Anti-smoking drug Chantix linked to more than 500 suicides
But they don't pull it off the market...

Pharmaceutical firms paid to attend meetings of panel that advises FDA
Well, it doesn't get much more blatant than that.

Against medical advice, FDA approves potent new painkiller
Against the recommendation of their own medical advisory board.   Seriously.

FDA says new cholesterol drugs may not need outcome studies
Dammit, that is their job.  To make sure they know what the drugs do, before they are approved.   Why would anyone assume all cholesterol reducers work the same way?

Sure they had a meeting for Narcolepsy patients.    But their expert panel didn't seem to know the first thing about narcolepsy.   And their ignorance and institutional indulgence is the reason Xyrem is being given to children.

They are the center of the Matrix.