Comments on: Drug companies responsible for generic side effects? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic.html medical blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chuck Brooks http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic.html/comment-page-1#comment-88018 Chuck Brooks Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic-side-effects.html#comment-88018 Maybe the drug companies involved should sue Conte for endangerment. In the interim, perhaps all medication, even OTC, should only be sold after a release is signed, with a new federal bureaucracy to design, collect analyse and ignore them.<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Maybe the drug companies involved should sue Conte for endangerment. In the interim, perhaps all medication, even OTC, should only be sold after a release is signed, with a new federal bureaucracy to design, collect analyse and ignore them.

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

]]> By: Dr. Val http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic.html/comment-page-1#comment-88014 Dr. Val Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic-side-effects.html#comment-88014 This is a strange way of getting more generics onto the market - and reducing new drug R&D. It could really put the breaks on the search for new cures. Why would anyone want to take the risk of developing them? They'll be eternally liable for any adverse outcome from the drug, anyone's copy of it, or even a provider's misunderstanding of warnings on the label. The American legal system is totally out of control. We need tort reform now. This is a strange way of getting more generics onto the market – and reducing new drug R&D. It could really put the breaks on the search for new cures. Why would anyone want to take the risk of developing them? They'll be eternally liable for any adverse outcome from the drug, anyone's copy of it, or even a provider's misunderstanding of warnings on the label. The American legal system is totally out of control. We need tort reform now.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic.html/comment-page-1#comment-88009 Anonymous Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic-side-effects.html#comment-88009 Wow. How about I sue McDonald's for a bad burger I bought at Burger King. I never have to give them a penny! Wow. How about I sue McDonald’s for a bad burger I bought at Burger King. I never have to give them a penny!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic.html/comment-page-1#comment-88008 Anonymous Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/drug-companies-responsible-for-generic-side-effects.html#comment-88008 The FDA checks less than 10% of all generic drugs. <br/><br/>"Even when there are inspectors on the job, they cannot be sure every ingredient in a medicine is safe." <br/><br/>"Even the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, a normally loquacious trade group, was largely silent on the issue."<br/><br/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02fda-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all The FDA checks less than 10% of all generic drugs.

"Even when there are inspectors on the job, they cannot be sure every ingredient in a medicine is safe."

"Even the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, a normally loquacious trade group, was largely silent on the issue."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02fda-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

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