The most recent "news:"
WASHINGTON: Another study has found that diabetes drugs intended to help patients live longer, healthier lives may in fact increase the chances they will die — this time of heart attacks and other causes.
The news, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, set off a clamour by consumer groups, heart experts and Congress — some of whom question the safety of all drugs in this class after a number of studies that have shown liver, heart and bone side effects.
Full article HERE
I really feel badly for anyone who has to take serious medication for life threatening illnesses...but while the pharmaceutical companies rake in obscene profits - they are producing products that hurt the very people they say they are helping.
And what got me more angry - was that an article I first read about this issue - went on to lament that the drug company's stock prices fell..
Really lets you know what is the most important aspect of this issue - doesn't it?
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