Corruption at the FDA is to blame for the dramatic increase in drugs adverse events, deaths

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:

A Trump presidency may very well usher in the kind of health choice and health freedom tens of millions of Americans have been waiting for, given statements he made during his first press conference recently about seriously reforming Big Pharma.

Any reforms that Trump will enact seriously could not come soon enough. And with it, here’s hoping that those reforms also extend to the federal agency that ostensibly oversees Big Pharma: The Food and Drug Administration.

As reported by the trademarked Pharma Marketing Blog, some 128,000 hospitalized patients die every year from ADRs—Adverse Drug Reactions—and Adverse Events. That matches stroke as the fourth leading cause of hospital deaths, as noted here. Death from health supplements, which the FDA refuses to back despite scores of clinical studies demonstrating their benefits, don’t kill anyone.

Deaths and serious reactions outside of hospitals due to Big Pharma ADRs dramatically increases the overall death rates. And that also doesn’t include deaths and hospitalizations from overdosing patients, medication errors, and recreational drug use [RELATED: Check out the latest figures at PharmaDeathClock.com].

All of this is made clear via the hundreds of thousands of drug “Adverse Event Reports” (AERs) that the FDA receives each and every year coming directly from healthcare providers including physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nursing staff and others. Also, consumers and drug companies also send AERs to the FDA, the latter being a required reporter of adverse effects.

A chart posted on Pharma Marketing Blog shows a sharp upward trend in AER reporting to the FDA between 2003 and 2014, rising from about 200,000 per year to 1.2 million, from all sources. A separate chart shows a general upward reporting trend from consumers over the same period. The site noted further:

I have analyzed data from 2003 through 2014 to look at the number of AERs submitted by HCPs versus consumers, the number of serious adverse events versus the number of adverse events involving death, and the correlation between serious AEs and user fees paid to the FDA by drug companies. I see some interesting trends in the data.

For one, the FDA is not only receiving more AERs each year, but the number of serious adverse events involving a death is also rising, and rather dramatically.

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