I'm posting old and new-news here. I hope I haven't violated the rules too badly.
From MSNBC, an article about FDA and Vioxx. This is current information that has been semi-posted before, but I want to post it in conjunction with the link below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6520630/ And at the same time, here's an article from July 2004, published in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the fact that the Bush administration is attempting to block lawsuits for drugs approved by the FDA.
Bush tries to block consumer drug suits
White House says injury claims undermine FDA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/07/25/MNG6S7SQ231.DTL It is the media's responsibility to make these issues known far and wide. If the Bushes are working so hard to let the drug companies harm us, why does anyone think they even want to protect us from terrorists?
Dear God, if only we could someday have some semblance of propriety in our government again.