FDA Warnings on Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration is ordering stronger warnings on four medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
The drugs - Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel and Remicade - work by suppressing the immune system, and the FDA says that can expose some patients to serious, even fatal, fungal infections.
The agency said Thursday it has received 240 reports of one such type of infection, called histoplasmosis.
In at least 21 of the cases, doctors didn't initially recognize the problem, and 12 of the patients died.
The fungus that causes the infection is common in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.
Patients should stop taking their medication and call the doctor if they develop persistent fever, cough, shortness of breath and fatigue.
" I have been concerned for years about the ineffectiveness of our Federal Drug Administration in protecting us from drugs that are tested only by the pharmaceutical companies that produce them.
It seems the FDA waits until there have been many avoidable drastic results -even deaths- before they become concerned.
For some time, I have been greatly concerned about drugs that have been promoted for Osteopenia and Osteoporosis that are also very dangerous.
Please do not the expose yourself to the dangers of Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and other bone density drugs.
Much misinformation has been given when these drugs are advertised to increase bone density.
I urgently warn you to save yourself from the serious physical consequences and great financial expense of taking these "so called bone density" drugs.
You don't need to suffer the serious side effects of drugs that do more to harm than to help.
There are natural alternatives available that will safely increase your bone density.
Muryal Braun
The drugs - Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel and Remicade - work by suppressing the immune system, and the FDA says that can expose some patients to serious, even fatal, fungal infections.
The agency said Thursday it has received 240 reports of one such type of infection, called histoplasmosis.
In at least 21 of the cases, doctors didn't initially recognize the problem, and 12 of the patients died.
The fungus that causes the infection is common in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.
Patients should stop taking their medication and call the doctor if they develop persistent fever, cough, shortness of breath and fatigue.
" I have been concerned for years about the ineffectiveness of our Federal Drug Administration in protecting us from drugs that are tested only by the pharmaceutical companies that produce them.
It seems the FDA waits until there have been many avoidable drastic results -even deaths- before they become concerned.
For some time, I have been greatly concerned about drugs that have been promoted for Osteopenia and Osteoporosis that are also very dangerous.
Please do not the expose yourself to the dangers of Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and other bone density drugs.
Much misinformation has been given when these drugs are advertised to increase bone density.
I urgently warn you to save yourself from the serious physical consequences and great financial expense of taking these "so called bone density" drugs.
You don't need to suffer the serious side effects of drugs that do more to harm than to help.
There are natural alternatives available that will safely increase your bone density.
Muryal Braun
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