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Update on Withdrawals of Dangerous Drugs in the U.S.
January 2011
This article lists 11 of the prescription drugs that we warned Worst Pills, Best Pills News subscribers not to use before they were banned by the FDA. Subscribers knew an average of 3.3 years before the FDA acted that these medications were unsafe to use.

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Letter to the Department of Health and Human Services urging that they implement and enforce the Code of Ethics for Government (HRG Publication #1516)
It is urgent for you and other leaders in HHS--and all government agencies--to re-read and strongly urge the implementation and enforcement of a 1958 Congressional Resolution entitled The Code of Ethics for Government Service (175 72 Stat B12, 1958) which states that "Any person in Government Service should put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party or Government department."
Letter to the Editor in the Journal of the American Medical Association in response to an article on the safety of Food and Drug Administration approved drugs which were withdrawn (HRG Publication #1502)
Letters-Science by Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H. Larry Sasich, Pharm.D., M.P.H. Letter to the Editor in the Journal of the American Medical Association in response to an article on the safety of Food and Drug Administration approved drugs which were withdrawn
Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post concerning dangerous drug information found on their web site entitled InteliHealth which is associated with Johns Hopkins University. (HRG Publication #1484)
Readers should be warned that The Post's new health Web site, www.washingtonpost.com/health, launched April 13, included potentially dangerous drug information. Information on the site, provided by Inteli-Health, Inc., in association with Johns Hopkins, is out-of-date and inaccurate. Here are just three examples:
Statement about a Food and Drug Adminstration article in the Journal of the American Medical Association regarding recently withdrawn drugs and the safety of newly approved drugs. (HRG Publication #1481)
None of these drugs were breakthrough drugs and the serious safety concerns should have prevented their approval in the cases of Redux, Posicor, and Duract and a much earlier market withdrawal for Seldane. FDA's conclusion that there is no problem associated with these drug safety withdrawals should not be taken seriously because to do so will continue to jeopardize the safety of American patients.