How much research is needed to prove that a drug is bad? The Food and Drug Administration, also known as F.D.A, had a long debate on whether they should band the sells of Trasylol, a drug given to patients with heart surgery to decrease the bleeding. After a lot of research the F.D.A still didn’t want to stop the sells of Trasylol, although they knew the danger.
Trasylol is said to work better for heart surgery since it is more efficient to reducing excessive bleeding. There are two other drugs used and they also work, yet not as well as Trasylol. Aside from the reducing excessive bleeding Trasylol also increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Trasylol should be banded. They have made research that says that people that had heart surgery and were given the drug later had health problems; however, they used the excuse that maybe patients given the drug were sicker than those given the other two drugs. How ignorant can people be, as doctors they shouldn’t only care what works well for doctors but also for future heath conditions of patients. The F.D.A is just being careless for not thinking of the wealth of the patient. Trasylol is one of the used a lot in the United States. Out of 200,000 patients that were treated with the drug world wide, about 110,000 were from the United States.
Although the F.D.A stopped the sells of the Trasylol and they say they did the decision them selves aside from the research that Germany had made, I believe we have a lot to thank to Germany for the decision the F.D.A made. I believe it was a good choice. I only wish that those people that were already treated with it wont will be ok.
Bayer Withdraws Heart Surgery Drug
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/health/05cnd-bayer.html?ref=health
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I agree with you. Maybe F.D.A just saw the little benifit and not the great danger. This is just more of a reason to try to make something better for everyone's health.
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