By reading the book we again see how the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA), is too close connected to the medical firms, from whom yearly half of the money is received, which without doubt results in the fast greenlighting the new drugs, and this mostly done just after only the produces have declared how safe and good and safe their drugs are.
And besides with the drugs faster being allowed in USA than in Europe, we at cases with drugs turning out resulting in bad side problems, and even persons dying, it now for FDA have rotated 180 degrees, so that in Europe fast being removed from the marked, while by FDA even taken up to 1 ½ year before banned in USA.
So again it looks like too close a connection between FDA and the medical firms. But strangely it also shows up that nearly all of the “experts” who to FDA greenlight the drugs actually nearly all of them also are working for, paid by, the firms; which strangely they often try to deny.
And in cases we see how the firms for selling more drugs, then by rotating the research results get them to look much better, for example, when advertising that a drug reduces the risk of hip fracture by 50%. But actually by the research the firm only used women at high risk, and of these 100 were on the drug while 100 on placebo, and during the period 1 in the drug group had a hip fracture while 2 in the placebo group. So 1% in the drug group and 2% in the placebo group hit by the sickness. But of cause 1 to 2 = 50%, so of cause telling only 50% so big chance when using the drug, and strangely forgetting to tell research only was made on high risk women.
To me the book is missing in some of the chapters to tell which natural vitamins, minerals, or herbs, the patient could use instead of the actual drugs, and thereby in many cases getting much better results, and nearly without any side problems. As in the case concerning risk of hip fracture, where we more and more realize the missing of calcium, magnesium, sunshine (vitamin D2), and vitamin K2, causes the problem.
As the book is printed in 2005, we concerning some of the cases since then, in the news, have read about much more problems. Or concerning the cholesterol we now know that we nearly have none connections between cholesterol and heart attack. But even the book is printed 11 years ago, it still is good by warning us about not blindly to trust FDA or the drug producers.
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