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FDA Approved 'Heart Drug" Sends 43,000 Americans to ER

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:06 pm
by ofonorow
http://www.knowledgeofhealth.com/report ... e,%20Drugs
This FDA-Approved Drug Sends 43,000 Americans To The Emergency Room Each Year

Amazing article by Bill Sardi. Also amazing that doctors and the FDA approve of giving "rat poision" to heart patients.

Name an FDA-approved drug that sends more than 43,000 people to the emergency room each year in the US, causes 85,000 serious bleeding events and 17,000 strokes, and the FDA has taken no action to remove it from the marketplace when there are safer alternatives.

According to an AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, side effects for warfarin, the most commonly prescribed blood thinner, generate over $1 billion in excess health care costs.