I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON LABS.

Two days later I was BLIND

Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX REACTION to verify

I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON LABS.

Two days later I was BLIND

Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX to verify

While DT left FDA in 2004, he was, indeed, central in shaping the preemption preamble, as he has said himself. It was not so much “adding preemption” as making the preamble essentially all about preemption. The rest of the rules (which were “preambled”) were about labeling.

This was not an impulsive move. It was several years in the making and part of the overall preemption strategy. Several other “new” FDA rules were part of the same overall game plan - restricting companies’ ability to warn prior to FDA review, etc.

How do the pharmaceutical companies control us??…let me count the ways…

1) $1.12 per year to continuing medical education for doctors…

2) User Fees to the FDA paying a significant amount of the FDA’s budget

3) Massive contributions to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for:

a) electing State Supreme Court Justices sympathetic to the pharmaceutical industry.

b) capping punitive damages

c) writing amicus curae briefs to the Supreme Court to win pre-emption decisions

4) “Foundations” who secretly support the pharmaceutical industry - think Robert Wood

5) Uncounted numbers of lobbyists to the Senate and House of Representatives

6) Paid medical consultants, the page turners at doctors conferences, who sell other doctors on untested, unsafe medications and medical devices

7) pharmaceutical reps in the examining room and the operating room with doctors telling them what to prescribe and how to operate

8) Full page ads in newspapers

9) MASSIVE DIRECT TO CONSUMER TELEVISION ADS

10) Daniel Troy adding “preemption” to the FDA preamble in 2006…oh, by the way he is back selling himself to the pharmaceutical companies he was working for before he went to work at the FDA

11) Spending a $1 Billion Dollars to launch a Block Buster drug

12) Using the FDA’s 510 (k) Pre-Market Notification submission process
NOT TO CONDUCT CLINICAL TRIALS while using MILLIONS OF AMERICANS as unknowing GUINEA PIGS
whose health insurance pays for their drugs and surgeries and hospitalizations that ruin their lives

THEN BIG PHARMA INVOKES FEDERAL PREEMPTION IN A LAWSUIT SO THAT PEOPLE LIKE SYLVIA LEVINE WILL NEVER GET A PENNY WHILE THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES POCKET BILLIONS…YES BILLIONS… AND LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK…

The Food and Drug Act of 1938 was passed in REACTION to people dying from untested elixirs sold by the snake oil salesmen.

Congress needs to ACT FOR AMERICANS, NOT REACT to the actions of of the modern day snake oil salesmen, pharmaceutical companies. Until that happens, BIG PHARMA’s GREED will continue to erode American’s civil liberties at the same time that they are picking our pockets with dangerous drugs that create higher medical costs.

That’s not everything but you get the idea…a patients advocate, founder of Truth in Medicine, Lana Keeton

It’s fun and popular to dump the invective on “Big Pharma” (whatever that is!), but the thousands and thousands of Americans engaged in pharmaaceutical research are dedicated professionals attempting to provide quality medicines and devices to the world. We also have mortgages, loans, taxes, and responsibilities just like other Americans, and few of us ever get rich.

But we don’t have “patients,” and we don’t practice medicine. Don’t blame the manufacturer when a doctor prescribes off-label or doesn’t read the package insert.

Did someone just say the word “patient”? ..

“patients” were eliminated from the big pharma business model a long time ago, we’re all just “target audiences” , “statistics” and “consumers” now…