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The FDA has proposed a ban of ephedra and ephedrine alkaloids but not on all products that contain ephedrine, only for nutritional supplements. Apparently, ephedrine’s safety issue isn’t an issue at all when manufactured and sold without a prescription by the pharmaceutical industry even in higher concentrations and when taken while one is sick and their immune system compromised. If the safety of ephedrine is in question, why it will remain available in nonprescription cold medicines, cold medicines designed specifically for children and even infants and in formulas that contain 10 times more ephedrine than average ephedra based supplements.
Ephedra has been used successfully for weight loss and energy enhancement by millions of consumers for decades (it's been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years), yet the FDA is bending to pressure outside the realm of science in instituting regulation to ban this effective supplement. All the while, obesity is at an all time high accounting for some 300,000 premature deaths per year.
There 130,000 deaths a year from doctor administered, properly prescribed prescription drugs. A study was published in the April 1998 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), this study concluded that in 1994 - 2,711,000 people had serious ADR (adverse drug reactions) that required hospitalization. That’s 2 million, 711 thousand people suffering serious adverse reactions to properly prescribed FDA approved medication! Of these 2,711,000 people, as many as 137,000 died. And that’s just in the year 1994, now the number now is probably much higher. The study also concluded that FDA approved prescription drugs are between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Remember, this is from prescription drugs that were properly prescribed under a doctor’s care. This does not include improperly prescribed drugs, overdoses or prescription mistakes.
Now while the FDA is banning ephedra, more than 130,000 people are dying each year from the very drugs they approve of.
Posted by gummi on Friday, March 10, 2006 (00:32:56) (352 reads)
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