A “serious adverse event” is drug-speak for something bad that happened when a person was taking a medication. That bad thing can range from a hospitalization all the way up to death.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a voluntary reporting system setup called MedWatch …
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Too many of the precpriptive medications I have been on, have far too many side affects. Paxil, Zyprexa, Ambien, Seroqeol,Lithium. And the lack of knowledge of those despensing medication adds to the disfunction of the sum total.
I no longer trust medical doctors, nor medicine, who carelessly prescribe medication, and having 15 minutes which allows 7 TRUE minutes for input paid by the Drug Companies are no better than street “Dealers” It took me 55 years to get here,and blindness in one eye, several stress related problems, beside the damage done to my family life[or lack there of] have me off medicnes, treating with suppliments, and speaking of the TRUTH. Those in autority however do not listen, for my life has/never had any value to them. As long as the money flows, based on their concepts of medicine, and personalities, they see the Epidemic, as bearing fruit, fattening their wallets.Nothing more nothing less, it’s all about money, and controll.
Going hand in hand with the present article of discussion is that clinical trials do an incredibly poor job of reporting side effects. This has been research extensively and I have reported on it on my blog. Note also that the main reason for the upsurge in adverse event reports, according to the study, was as follows: “The increase over time was largely explained by increases of just 1 type of report – expedited reports from manufacturers of new, serious events not on the product label. Of the increase of 54,876 additional events in 2005 compared with 1998, expedited reports accounted for 48,080 (87.6%) of these events.”
Unless I am misinterpreting this comment, it would seem that a large percentage of adverse events reported to the FDA are based on side effects not even listed on the drug label. Which then relates back to how well (or poorly) drug-induced adverse events are reported in clinical trials, which largely determine what side effects are reported on the drug label. Remember that it was thought SSRI’s induced sexual dysfunction in an incredibly small percentage of users, yet that obviously turned out to be incorrect.
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