The Food and Drug Administration is directly responsible for those 106,000 deaths from negative effects of correctly prescribed drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for 7,000 other deaths from mistakenly administered-medications in hospitals and elsewhere.   There is no good reason for medicine, even mistakenly prescribed or administered medicine to kill anyone unless A. They were in a mighty precarious state to begin with or B. An allergic reaction of some sort took place.  IF, IF the FDA were required to abide by the common-sense medical dictate “First Do NO Harm!” at least 95% of those 113,000 would NOT die every year. Instead some FDA drugs have killed over 100,000 people in their history and keep right on killing today; and the legions of maimed and severely injured from some of those drugs climbs into the millions.

The worst aspect about all this, is that a whole lot of the medicines that do the most damage are palliative medicines that do NOT cure or fix anything. There is nothing wrong with easing patients’ symptoms, but that ease should NEVER come at the cost of endangering the patient’s health, which is the case in 100% of the drugs the FDA approves for palliative purposes. When, in actuality, many of these palliatives are no more effective than placebos (sugar pills) and great harm is possible and the medicines are expensive . . . look for the FDA to be behind this travesty. Medicines that actually cure something can kill or injure on sad occasions; but medicines that cannot cure should NEVER cause harm. This is one more reason why the FDA needs to be eliminated.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

For those wondering about other iatrogenic deaths: 80,000 die from infections that are encountered while in the hospital; 45,000 from miscellaneous errors; and 12,000 from unnecessary surgeries.

            President Obama's new health care system (if it comes) is doomed to failure at huge expense, personal-healthwise and economically to the country . . .  as we mentioned in Rants #4 and #5, there are four main reasons why:

A.    Government spending programs seldom work.

B.     The two earlier programs, Medicare and Medicaid, did not help and only made health and cost trends already in place much worse.  Both are functionally bankrupt.  Medicare now has obligations of $34 TRillion and will be officially bankrupt in 2016.

C.    And mostly because, the President is NOT expected to address FDA re-organization or clean up in his new program: huge mistake, HUGE!

D.    Additionally, as far as is known, the President is not expected to address a single one of the points brought up by health educator Rajjpuut in his blog series “A Far Better Health Care Alternative.”

          As shown clearly in Rant #5, American medical scientists have time and time again concluded research underlining that there is absolutely NO need for new drugs that mask pain but do not help cure the underlying problems. The problem has been made infinitely worse because now drug companies are allowed to legally "bribe"** the FDA to rush their newest dangerous concoctions right out into the marketplace and FDA philosophy has deteriorated since 1990.  In that year, 58% of the drugs studied were approved; today about83% of studied drugs are approved. 

In 1990 only 5% of the brand new to the world drugs were approved; today 2/3 of these brand new drugs never before used in any other country now receive FDA approval:  an anguishing 1300% rise in approval of untested drugs.  The combination of rapid (bribed) approval; loose overallapproval habits and ultra-loose sanctions on brand-new drugs has made the American health scene a dangerousplace for patients when given an Rx from their doctor.

The FDA seems to go out of its way to protect the drug companies from potentially healthier, lessexpensive, and less dangerous competitors.  Why else would the FDA have issued several statements at various times in their history that "no supplement has ever been proven to cure any disease or heal any medical condition."  Amazing that they've never heard of Vitamin C and scurvy; of Linus Pauling's Nobel Prize; or Louis Ignarro's Nobel Prize.

             Even though there are virtually no instances of medical PROBLEMS caused by nutrients (vitamins,minerals, etc.) when taken in recommended dosages but combined millions of DEATHS, DEFORMITIES, illnesses and INJURIES caused by "proper" dosages of prescription medicines . . . nevertheless, the FDA has attacked natural ingredients and natural nutrients producers and stores with an incredible vehemence especially, it seems, nutrients which have performed very well in scientific studies such as DHEA, DMSO, hydrogen peroxide and food grade hydrogen peroxide.  Natural ingredients being far less expensive, and having no side effects for people not allergic to them are serious rivals to drugs.  The drug companies have no motivation, for their part, to feature any "natural ingredient" because no natural ingredients are patentable.

             The FDA seemingly attacks all enemies or competitors of the big pharmaceutical companies:  vitamin stores; doctors who routinely prescribe vitamin or nutrient regimens; natural whole-grain diet breads and diet cereals; homemade diet soups, etc., etc., much more eagerly than it applies pressure to the drug companies themselves.  Where are the deaths? deformities, illnesses and injuries that justify that kind of scrutiny?  Why don't they do the math  and do their jobs instead and protect Americans from the irresponsible drug companies?  I think the folks who created the FDA in 1906 must be rolling over in their graves seeing the Frankenstein monster their once great agency has degenerated into.  If for no other reason,the number of iatrogenic deaths, deformities, injuries and illnesses today's drugs have visited upon the unsuspecting American public give them sufficient excuse to continue rolling around in those graves for thenext 100 years.

            At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public health they’re in the business of protecting; and the public they’re supposed to be serving but the President, congress, and the American Public needs to remember that key fact RIGHT NOW!  The first necessary step in any health care change is to UNDO, REDO and UNcorrupt the FDA.

Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut  

**   the correct term is "bribe" but the FDA calls them "expedited evaluations" or "expedited reviews"

Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.

Americans believe health comes in drug bottles and the few in the medical community who know differently (they ALL should but are hypnotized by drug claims) aren’t advertising the truth.

 At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public they’re supposed to be serving.

Drug Culture Created by the FDA

and Big Pharmaceutical Companies

Costs Government Programs Heavily

Obama plans to put a new health care system in place doomed to failure at huge expense, personal-healthwise and economically to the country . . .  as we mentioned in rant #4, there are four main reasons why: 

A.    Government spending programs seldom work. 

B.     The two earlier programs, Medicare and Medicaid, did not help and only made health and cost trends already in place much worse. Medicare has contractual obligations for $34 TRillion in obligations it cannot cover; officially it will be bankrupt in 2016.

C.    And mostly because, the President is NOT expected to address FDA re-organization or clean up in his new program: huge mistake, HUGE!

D.    Additionally, as far as is known, the President is only expected to address exactly one of the forty-threepoints brought up by health educator Rajjpuut in his blog series “A Far Better Health Care Alternative.”

          American medical scientists have time and time again concluded research that underlines the simple fact that there is absolutely NO need for new drugs that mask pain but do not help cure the underlying problems. There are enough old pain medications at large, and the newer ones are just far more expensive and much, much more dangerous. But the drug companies keep cranking them out and despite the best medical advice ever known (First Do No Harm!), the FDA keeps approving them. The pure cost in money; the cost in iatrogenic ailments (problems caused my errors from doctors, nurses or the hospital itself; or by reactions to medicine) in money and lives; and the cost to the U.S. government all demand that the FDA deny approval to about 90-95% of all such drugs.

          However, the FDA in its inanity and corruption (see Rajjpuut’s earlier FDA rants) doesn’t even deny approval to 10% of these dangerous new concoctions. Year after year the list of horrendous side-effects for new medications we hear advertised on TV grows longer and more virulent. 

          Drug companies then go out of their way to see that their dangerous, expensive concoctions become popular:

A.      Nurses are paid by drug companies for using their products when they have that discretionary power

B.      Schools get paid thousands of dollars monthly for every child they help get prescribed for psychiatric drugs like Prozac or Ritalin.

C.      Doctors routinely get visited by drug sales men with huge amounts of literature “pushing” their drugs and even kickback offers and bonus offers if certain “quotas” are

 met

D.      A, B, and C above are clearly abuses that endanger the patients and the government’s coffers. The FDA which has the power to stop A, B, and C above from happening

never does anything . . . never.

The biggest abuse of all, however, is that drug companies routinely pay scientists and doctors on government advisory panels to recommend their drugs. And often the payments even come for recommending their drugs in front of FDA evaluation hearings and the FDA condones the practice.

Drug companies can now legally bribe** the FDA to hasten their drugs onto the market. 

It’s all a huge pack of lies, deceit, shady practices and outright corruption that endangers the public and costs the government immense amounts of money every second of every day. The FDA knows but will not tell you that:

A.      An aspirin a day makes strokes much more likely

B.      Almost all sunscreens cause cancer but don’t do much to prevent skin cancer (since sunscreens have become common, American skin cancer rates have risen dramatically, far worse than people under the tropic sun typically encounter)

C.      Lowering cholesterol does nothing to stop heart attacks.  The 33-year old high-cholesterol lie is the most profitable charade in the history of medicine making all the quack medicine salesmen ever known look like Honest Abe.

D.      Estrogen therapy is an extraordinarily dangerous practice.

E.       Roughly 60% of the most frequently prescribed drugs for the elderly are found on lists of drugs NOT to be given to elderly persons.

F.       Every prescription drug has dangerous side effects, nevertheless 20% of them have NO printed warnings on the packaging.

G.      Average Americans consume fifty pounds worth of prescription, non-prescription, and over the counter drugs every year (400 times more than Rajjpuut does!)

H.      People who don’t need drugs are now going into their doctors and demanding certain drugs they’ve seen advertised on TV.

I.        Iatrogenic disease (caused by medicines and medical treatment is now the 3^rd or 4^th

largest cause of death and dangerous medicines are a prime cause of them. You are ten times more likely to go to the hospital for a prescription drug reaction and four times more likely to die than if you had an automobile accident.

J.        The FDA could IMMEDIATELY stop every one of these sad situations, the FDA does nothing!

            At the FDA they’ve long forgotten it’s the public health they’re in the business of protecting; and the public they’re supposed to be serving but the President, congress, and the American Public needs to remember that key fact RIGHT NOW!

The first necessary step in any health care change is to UNDO, REDO and UNcorrupt the FDA.

Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut   

**   the correct term is "bribe" but the FDA calls them "expedited evaluations" or "expedited reviews"

Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.