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Health & Fitness

Are We All Just Corporate Guinea Pigs?

It seems I cant turn the TV on nowadays without seeing a commercial for either a new miracle drug or an attorneys office looking for people. The people the attorneys seem to be looking for are the people who took last months miracle drug and had an adverse side effect up to and including death so they can sue the makers of said last months miracle drug. What is going on here? Isn't our government supposed to be testing these drugs BEFORE they kill us? What exactly does the FDA do? I may be naive but I was always under the impression that it was the reason we funded them with tax payer money. Has something changed, does the FDA now do the bidding of big pharma with little regard for the people they are supposed to protect?  It is beginning to appear that way. Now I read that the FDA is approving a new streamlined approval process so big pharma can rush new drugs to market with even less testing. Does anyone besides the manufacturer think this is a good idea? Its time for us once again to stand up and say, no more. Take control of your familys health.

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