Death by Paxil @ Euchred!

“Gardasil had three times the number of Emergency Room visits – more than 5,000. Reports of side effects were up to 30 times higher with Gardasil”
CBS) There are new concerns about Gardasil, the vaccine that prevents a virus that caused cervical cancer. It’s approved for girls as young as nine. And five million have received it [...]

Major Reality Check
When the pain reliever Vioxx was withdrawn from the market last fall after the announcement that it increased patients’ risk of heart attacks and strokes, millions of Americans panicked. The sometimes-sensationalized headlines didn’t help: People wondered, Should I trust my doctor? Could a medication that I thought would help me actually kill me? [...]

Another great article found in Readers Digest.
A doctor blows the whistle on a dangerous new drug that wrongfully received FDA approval.
The well-dressed woman in the waiting room was yellow, recalls John Hanson, MD — a clear sign of jaundice. That was puzzling: One month earlier, in March 2005, Vivienne Wardley (not her real name), 51, [...]

What You Can Do
• Don’t give up on medical research.
“Never before have we had so many scientific advances that need to be evaluated,” says John Gallin, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. But there’s a serious shortage of volunteers to help test the potential breakthroughs in the more [...]

I found this while in the waiting room of a local hospital, last week.  I read the entire thing three times.  It’s a really great article.
It was published in Readers Digest, April 2008. 
Recent headlines have uncovered one shocking lapse after another at the Food and Drug Administration: A popular diabetes drug can sharply increase the [...]