Lucas,
On September 23, the FDA restricted sales of the widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia. But restricting Avandia is not enough. Once again, the FDA has failed to protect the American people from unsafe medications and instead sold out to the pharmaceutical industry behemoths.
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Avandia - also known by the generic name rosiglitazone - causes heart attacks. It is so risky that it was outright banned across Europe.
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It is outrageous that the FDA did not ban Avandia. The agency instead took years to decide that this drug - with no evidence of any health advantages and abundant evidence of a variety of risks compared to other diabetes drugs - should be severely restricted. Why did the FDA stand by while tens of thousands of patients were hospitalized or killed?
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This is far from the first time the FDA has failed to protect the public. Since 1997, the FDA has removed nine drugs from the market that Public Citizen petitioned the agency to ban. But many of these drugs were banned years after we began urging people to avoid them. There is a growing list of drugs the FDA should ban, but hasn't, such as the painkiller Darvon and the weight-reduction drug Meridia.
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Sincerely,
Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.
Director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group
Editor, Worstpills.org