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Re: Thalidomide

Hi Truman; Guess what about Thalidomide? It's back!  Remember how it arrested cellular growth in fetus's? Causing flippers instead of arms? Well, it has applications in Oncology, especially in Bone Marrow transplant for combating Graft versus Host disease, (rejection)  We used to have to send one of our Doctors via plane to south America to get it. Columbia.  (Drug Running..how 'bout that?) We had special permits. Now we just get it here. They use it also for Leprosy I've heard. we restrict it to males.   It wasn't a bad drug, just used for the wrong reason, to the wrong people. Sometimes you don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water.  I thought you'd think it wierd how that story turned out! Beth

>From: "Truman Prevatt, PhD"
>Reply-To: truman.prevatt@netsrq.com
>To: RideCamp
>Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: Re: Animal By-Products in Feed
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:01:17 -0500
>
>Actually if you look at the number of drugs that have been withdrawn in
>the
>past several years the FDA record of approval looks pretty abysmal.
>Considering the side effects of aspirin, it is a minor burp to some that
>have
>recently been taken off the market.
>
>While the FDA had not approved thalidomide it was basically because the
>application was not made for the US market until it was obvious in
>Europe that
>there were problems with this drug. Given that the FDA works on the same
>basic
>test philosophy as its European counterparts, we were only spared
>because of
>the late application. This is a case study of how the drug approval
>process is
>seriously flawed.
>
>After reforms in the 60's becaues of the thalidomide tragedy this type
>of
>thing was never going to happen again. Yep right, well wrong again. This
>whole
>issue is a case of conflicting priorities. The need to get drugs
>available for
>use by people who truly need them, the priority to insure the durgs
>approved
>are safe and don't case more problems than they solve and the priority
>of the
>drug companies to make a return on their investment - which in most
>cases is
>quite large.
>
>Am I going to take a drug that hasn't been on the market of 15 or 20
>years,
>not on your life.
>
>Truman
>
>Duncan Fletcher wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you would like to support that statement. There have been a number
> > of similar products that have been approved in recent years. So I rather
> > suspect aspirin would have no problem getting approval either.
> >
> > It is interesting to note that some competeing products are no longer used
> > (at least for humans) - bute for one.
> >
> > Duncan Fletcher
> > dfletche@gte.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carolyn Burgess"
> >
> > Along with western medicine comes drug studies, which subject medicine to
> > testing so that bad medicines can't go into production. However, aspirin
> > would not be able to pass the FDA testing and be approved today!
> >
> >
>
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