#vioxx — Public Fediverse posts
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1/ The prescription drug #Vioxx, indicated mainly for arthritis, was withdrawn from the market in 2004 due to how it induced cardiovascular events in many patients. A few years before that, the “miracle” diet drug Fen-phen was pulled because of some devastating side effects, too.
Ever since then I’ve wondered about what other risky drugs are still out there and available. One I’ve thought about is #finasteride, marketed as Proscar and Propecia and now trivially available via startups like Hims.
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Litigation finance's first big scores was going after med-tech and pharma companies. A lax regulatory environment allowed medical companies to market deadly products that maimed or killed people wholesale - think #Vioxx, #VaginalMeshes or #MetalOnMetal hip replacements (a doc about this, *The Bleeding Edge*, will give you persistent nightmares):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bleeding_Edge
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Le vaccin Cubain est efficace à 92%, même sur les variants. Pourquoi le gouvernement ne me le proposerait pas ? Cuba produit un vaccin pour sa population sans intérêt commercial en arrière plan. Il est évident de comprendre qu'il n'a aucun intérêt à mentir ou à empoisonner pour s'enrichir, contrairement à Big Pharma qui s'illustre régulièrement par sa cupidité et son absence de déontologie. #Médiator #Distilbène #Vioxx #Depakine #Daraprim ...