Unknown dangers of medical implants and drugs.
Alarming headlines about serious medical dangers greeted Americans during the first week of January 2019. These lengthy, in-depth stories detail the dangers that patients face every day:
NBC News: “How tainted drugs get to market and make sick patients sicker”
A 1-year old, perhaps now permanently on a ventilator, was sickened by a stool softener made by a Florida plant. The softener was “routinely prescribed to nearly every hospitalized patient.” The popular softener was contaminated with a bacteria that invaded the boy’s respiratory tract. The infection returned after his heart transplant and infected his lungs. It has been recalled.
Three hundred recalled products from drug companies – that also passed FDA inspections like the Florida plant – are only a fraction of the thousands of medicines, including over-the-counter medicines (Aleve) that have had to be taken off the market. NBC reported FDA inspectors are using “confusing regulatory terms and standards decades out of date” when they inspect plants.
The Washington Post: “The FDA is still letting doctors implant untested devices in our bodies”
A device implanted at the top of the spine to stop pain – approved by the FDA in 2003 with no clinical testing in humans – caused “airway obstructions, trouble swallowing and respiratory failure.” It was “just one of the FDA approved products over the last 10 years associated with “1.7 million injuries and more than 80,000 deaths.”
They include artificial hips that caused cobalt poisoning, surgical mesh that cut through flesh and organs and defibrillators that repeatedly shocked patients “beyond human endurance.” Now, according to the Post’s report, the FDA is planning to further loosen its regulations on implants.
ABC News: “Supreme Court to decide if Fosamax users can sue Merck over bone fractures”
A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could give drug companies a free pass to market dangerous prescription drugs. More than 500 victims in 45 states are suing Merck, the maker of Fosamax, a prescription drug meant to treat and prevent bone loss, after they had “atypical femoral fractures.” The victims say the drug company failed to warn them that Fosamax could cause “spontaneous bone breaks without any previous stress” although there was “early evidence” that could happen.
Merck says the FDA approved the drug in 2009 so the company is not liable for damages. Victims say Merck deliberately misled the FDA because it “never proposed” a warning about “atypical femoral fractures” to the federal regulatory agency.
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