Showing posts with label diabetes drugs and heart attacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diabetes drugs and heart attacks. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

How many times can one say "here we go again?"

I guess the answer is: as long as the big pharmas push for their bottom line and not anyones health !

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?