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High Blood Pressure
A study of nutritional therapy showed that over one-third of people who previously needed drug treatment for high blood pressure were able to adequately control their blood pressure with nutritional therapy alone.Several factors should be taken into account when considering whether your high blood pressure should be treated. One is the benefits of the treatment for your blood pressure, which vary significantly depending on how high it is, your age, and whether you have other risk factors such as high cholesterol or are a smoker or a diabetic, and whether you have had a heart attack, heart failure, a stroke, or have kidney damage. The other consideration is the risks or the adverse effects of the treatment, which will vary depending on what is being considered.

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thioridazine (MELLARIL)
  • We list this drug as a Do Not Use drug because it is more likely to cause irregular heartbeat than related drugs.

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The Widely Used Antibiotic Erythromycin And Fatal Heart Rhythm Disturbances
November 2004
You should not take erythromycin in combination with one of the interacting drugs listed in this article. If you are, you should contact your physician immediately. As mentioned above, erythromycin is an important antibiotic when used appropriately. Therefore, we do not recommend against its use when it is not used with one of these interacting drugs.

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Congress Must Act Quickly to Address Growing Crisis At the Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suffering from a crisis in leadership, a lack of congressional oversight and a dangerous reliance on the pharmaceutical industry to bankroll its operations, Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen told a House of Representatives subcommittee this morning.
FDA Should Give Oral Presentations at All Advisory Committee Meetings, Public Citizen Tells Agency
Agency experts should be required to give presentations at all future Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee meetings discussing specific products, Public Citizen said in a petition filed today.
Statement Before the Institute of Medicine Committee Assessing the U.S. Drug Safety System (HRG Publication #1759)
Testimony on the adequacy and conclusions of FDA’s pre-approval review and ongoing post-approval reviews.
Comments on: The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) (HRG Publication #1606)
Public Citizen=s position was then, and remains, that Congress must adequately fund the FDA using public money. Also, PDUFA=s second re-authorization in 1997, with its slavish deadlines and the accompanying ill-advised Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) are examples of failed experiments in public policy.
Letter to the Food and Drug Administration to immediately ban the antibiotic trovafloxacin (Trovan). (HRG Publication #1485)
we hereby petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as authorized by 21 U.S.C. , section 355 (e) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to immediately ban the widely-used antibiotic, TROVAN (trovafloxacin, Pfizer), before more patients die, require a liver transplant or are otherwise injured from liver toxicity caused by this drug.

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