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trovafloxacin (TROVAN)


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telithromycin (KETEK)
  • We list this drug as a Do Not Use drug because it is no more effective than other antibiotics and causes irregular heartbeat.

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New Research Results on Safety of Newly Approved Drugs Causes Health Research Group to Extend Five-Year Waiting Rule to Seven Years
June 2002
A study published in the May 1, 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has resulted in a major change in the Health Research Group’s drug safety policy. The study, in association with physicians from the Harvard Medical School, examined the frequency and timing of the identification of new adverse drug reactions resulting in the addition of a black box warning in the drug’s professional product labeling or its outright removal from the market. You should wait at least seven years from the date of release to take any new drug unless it is one of those rare “therapeutic advances” that offers you a documented therapeutic advantage over older, proven drugs.
Outrage: New Study: Wait Seven Years to Use New Drugs
June 2002
A study published in the May 1, 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has resulted in a major change in the Health Research Group's drug safety policy. The study, in association with physicians from the Harvard Medical School, examined the frequency and timing of the identification of new adverse drug reactions resulting in the addition of a black box warning in the drug's professional product labeling or its outright removal from the market. Three of the authors have close identification with the Health Research Group: its director, Sidney M. Wolfe, and former HRG staffers Drs. Steffi Woolhandler and David Himmelstein. The other co-authors are affiliated with the Harvard Medical School.

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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.
Comments on FDA's Draft Guidance for Industry - Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Premarketing Clinical Evaluation (HRG Publication #1833)
The FDA's guidance document confirms the agency's continued reluctance to seriously and publicly engage in post-mortem analyses of the growing number of mistakes the FDA has made concerning failed decision-making about either the approval of known hepatotoxic drugs or the dangerously delayed removal of ones showing hepatotoxicity shortly after approval.
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.

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