Health and Politics

The FDA, a very political outfit, which always insists that natural remedies are useless compared to all those Drugs, the Pharmaceuticals insist are safe and effective even if some people get worse or die from them, has changed their minds again. They just won't let natural remedies bring down the profits of the big pharm companies. Check out the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/dining/24chem.html?nl=8hlth&emc=hltha6

Pharmaceutical Companies are BIG profit makers. What cracks me up is when a drug commercial comes on the TV they make it sound like it's so wonderful to take. But then at the end they always have the list of side effects. It's all about $$.

I really had to laugh a lot when the government made them start giving all the side effects. Now you listen and think, why would I want to take that?
Even though my granddaughter will graduate from pharmaceutical school in May, she is still thinking pharmacies are ok. Some day she will wake up.
(She is staying here most of the time until she graduates as she is doing her training in Wichita hospitals.) Last month, she got really upset as she was in pediatric ICU and a 3 year old died of shaking baby syndrome by her mother's boyfriend. There has been a lot of children dying lately from that in the central KS area lately. So sad.