The FDA Continues To Be Useless

CNN reported today that FDA is now posting a list of drugs that potentially can cause more harm than good to the user. A few of these are obvious, such as Oxycontin (Drug misuse, abuse and overdose). Some of the others, however, are kind of disturbing. For example:

Arginine Hydrochloride Injection, which helps stimulate the pituitary gland:

Pediatric overdose due to labeling / packaging confusion

WTF??? They give this injection to kids, and there's 'packaging confusion'???

Natalizumab (Tysabri), which is a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis:

Skin Melanomas

No, really. Imagine, you're diagnosed with MS, you get some treatment that's supposed to help you, and you get CANCER instead. Why was this FDA approved to begin with?

Here's the risk for Suprane, a general anesthetic:

Cardiac arrest

*jaw hangs open* It would be quite ironic if, say, one was going into the hospital for heart surgery, and then gets a heart attack from the anesthesia.

Let's hope whoever is elected President does an overhaul of the FDA. Our health depends on it.