Watch this short trailer for the documentary WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU, by Lattanzio Firmian and Albertu Baudo.
The film details the many aspects of the Vioxx debacle from the perspective of patients who assumed the life-threatening pain reliever was safe because a bureaucracy stacked against anything and everything but big business didn't tell them otherwise.
In this film, you'll hear from one of my heroes, Dr. David Graham, who has argued from the start that the FDA -- the federal agency where he currently works -- has blood on their hands for allowing the Vioxx disaster to happen in the first place.
If you had been a subscriber to my newsletter in 1999 you would have read my warning about Vioxx, one year before it was released on the market and five years before it was taken off the market.
That is one of the services I seek to provide you in this newsletter. Information you can use years before it becomes widely known.
More Americans by the day are starting to take big-time notice of the scam perpetuated by the mega-drug companies that keep often-toxic substances in the consumer pipeline (with the help of a hands-off FDA completely uninterested in drug safety and a sleepy Congress obviously more interested in lobbying dollars than protecting your health).
On Vital Votes, Pam from Wilbraham, Massachusetts adds:
"When I started questioning conventional medicines treatment of my heart condition a few years back, I discovered some very interesting facts. I was put on a beta-blocker in combination with a diuretic. I was also on several other medications at the time. "I questioned my doctor about including the diuretic as I felt much worse after taking it. He just told me to keep taking the drugs if I wanted to prevent further problems. I dug deep into many different medical resources and finally found a study which said that more patients died from cardiac arrhythmias and electrolyte imbalances than died from the heart attacks the drug combination was supposed to prevent. "I was never given any advice on how to get off the many meds I was on or listened to when I wanted to reduce the dose, Some of the many articles I researched here helped me get off the drugs. It is so important to carefully withdraw from medications that can cause great harm to you. "I am so grateful for what I have learned from Dr. Mercola and from many of you."
"When I started questioning conventional medicines treatment of my heart condition a few years back, I discovered some very interesting facts. I was put on a beta-blocker in combination with a diuretic. I was also on several other medications at the time.
"I questioned my doctor about including the diuretic as I felt much worse after taking it. He just told me to keep taking the drugs if I wanted to prevent further problems. I dug deep into many different medical resources and finally found a study which said that more patients died from cardiac arrhythmias and electrolyte imbalances than died from the heart attacks the drug combination was supposed to prevent.
"I was never given any advice on how to get off the many meds I was on or listened to when I wanted to reduce the dose, Some of the many articles I researched here helped me get off the drugs. It is so important to carefully withdraw from medications that can cause great harm to you.
"I am so grateful for what I have learned from Dr. Mercola and from many of you."
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