Health Science Institude reported;A Danish drug maker has ask the FDA to aprove an injectable liraglatide to be called victoza.Sources say that the FDA is about to give the "green light " for the drug sell in the U.S. by an 8 to 5 ruling
The Drug is to help control blood sugar in type 2 diabetics without causing weight gain .Simular drugs tend to cause weight gain.
In studies the drug has consistenly caused thyroid cancer in rat and mice.It is rare for a drug to cause tumors in both species and both genders as Victoza does.
What are they trying to do,kill diabetics?
Is this the FDA’s version of “The final solution.”
To approve a drug that is showing such a potential to kill with no new benefit ? Wait to see? How many must die to see a risk to humans . It is irresponsable at the lest.
100,000 Americans die each year from prescribed medications . Vioxx has kill 60,000 Americans .In June 2006 , the FDA pushed to have a law passed that no drug Co. that was approved by the FDA could be suited. 600 drugs still on the market by the FDA’s own statements are useless;yet they are still alowed to be produce with health risk. This is Genoside . 100,000 Americans a yr ,thats more that all of Viet Nam.
All I am asking for is data on the particular risk to humans. I did a little digging but couldn’t find anything specific. All drugs have risks. Insulin kills people every year but I am still going to take it. Know what I mean?
It’s all about THE MONEY!! I used to think people who were anti-pharmaceutical companies were paranoid - until I experienced first hand the plethora of horrible side effects from many different drugs - and not just diabetes meds - think about statins. Don’t get me started. Suffice it to say that if I had not discovered Jenny’s site/book (http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/index.php), gotten off most of the RXs I was on, switched to basal insulin, and went lo-carb - I don’t think I’d still be here.
It seems to me that most of the drugs offered to T2 diabetics allow GPs to just write an RX or two for T2s, rather than tell their patients that the best thing they can do for their diagnosis is significantly change their behavior (of course, that would mean that docs really understand this, which most do not).
As a semi-geek, the drug companies remind me of some big software companies (and some of you know who they are), who use their customers as “beta testers” instead of keeping it in house and doing much more thorough testing before release - and of course, the FDA is complicit.
Beyond all that, as someone who also has hypothyroidism, I certainly don’t want anything that messes with that.
It’s a matter of degree…profits are not inherently bad - unless it is beyond reason and the common good - I believe we’re living through the aftermath of this type of thinking on Wall Street.
Where is the goodness or morality in pushing meds that may address 1 problem, but cause 5 others?
Maybe I’m just a rose-colored-glasses kinda gal, but I’d like to believe we’re entering a new age of personal and corporate responsibility.
