Tim, the Australian government took it off the market..... I read a news article that said so many suffered from the side effects of the drug and one was blindness that it had to go.  I considered myself lucky that the sudden blindness alerted me to it.... and I went off it. I wasn't taking any other medications.   Around 100,000 people die a year on prescription drugs in the US.... I don't know the figures from other parts of the world.


http://www.popline.org/node/445292
http://www.popline.org/node/480479 

I can't take Aspirin but have had no other problems with medications down through the years apart from Serial C.  It scared me...

Papantonio: Big Pharma Using Humans As Guinea Pigs (VIDEO)

Ring of Fire co-hosts Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss the recent revelations out of Germany, where we found out that pharmaceutical companies were using human beings as lab rats for dangerous drugs, often without their knowledge.
Read more @ http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/05/papantonio-big-pharma-using-humans-as-guinea-pigs-video/


Humans are not guinea pigs, SC tells govt news

03 January 2013




The Supreme Court today pulled up the union government for its failure to stop ''illegal'' clinical trials of untested drugs on human beings by multinational companies.

A bench comprising Justices R M Lodha and A R Dave said in an interim order that all clinical trials of drugs must be done under the supervision of the union health secretary.
 
The drug trials are creating ''havoc'' in the country and causing the death of many citizens, the bench observed.

The apex court's direction came during a hearing of a public interest litigation filed by the Swasthya Adhikar Manch alleging that clinical drug trials were being carried out across the country by various pharmaceutical firms using Indian citizens as guinea pigs.

The apex court said that the government has gone into ''deep slumber'' on the issue and has failed to put in place proper mechanisms to stop ''rackets'' by multinational pharmaceutical companies which are conducting illegal clinical trials.


Read more @ http://www.domain-b.com/industry/pharma/20130103_clinical.html

VA Still Using War Veterans As Guinea Pigs
http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=575

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Edited 1 time by PeacefulSwannie Feb 17 14 7:10 PM.