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Crestor Side Effect Report Delayed
Aug 3, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug company illegally delayed reporting side
effects linked to its anti-cholesterol drug Crestor, a consumer advocate
contended Tuesday in urging a Food and Drug Administration
investigation.
It's the latest attack on Crestor by the private group Public Citizen,
which argues that Crestor is riskier than its competitors and should be
banned.
FDA requires drug makers to reveal reports of serious and unexpected
side effects within 15 days of learning about them. While those reports
don't prove a drug was to blame, FDA evaluates them to determine whether
a medicine is riskier than initially thought.
Public Citizen's Dr. Sidney Wolfe charged that AstraZeneca delayed its
reports to the FDA by as long as 97 days. The company ultimately
reported that 19 Crestor users suffered an often life-threatening
muscle-destroying condition - and filed four reports of kidney failure.
The delays "have unquestionably impaired FDA's ability to promptly
assess the safety of this uniquely dangerous drug," Wolfe wrote FDA
Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford Tuesday.
AstraZeneca insists that Crestor is no more risky than other
cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs, and that it followed FDA rules. The
company says it wasn't subject to the 15-day deadline because the side
effects were mentioned on the drug's label.
Wolfe countered that Crestor's label implies the muscle-destroying side
effect occurs only with an unapproved high dose. The company's own
reports, however, implicate far lower doses. The drug's label only
mentions kidney failure in passing, Wolfe said.
FDA hasn't formally determined whether AstraZeneca should meet the
15-day deadline, said Dr. Mary Parks, medical officer.
So far, the agency says it sees no signal that Crestor is riskier than
other statins, which all can cause rare cases of the muscle side effect.
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milk products -- a basic part of the ulcer diet -- are not recommended.
Milk neutralizes gastric acid, but only for a short time. When the
effect wears off, the acid comes back worse than before.
Most spices, particularly black pepper and red pepper, which can cause
an upset stomach, should still be avoided. But chili powder, on the
other hand, seems to be safe.
Take it easy on alcoholic beverages, which increase stomach acid. High
concentrations of alcohol, around 80 proof, are the worst. Stick with
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Secret US report surfaces on antidepressants in
children
Jeanne Lenzer
Internal memos and a secret government report about the negative effects
of antidepressants in children-suppressed by the US Food and Drug
Administration-have surfaced publicly.
The Alliance for Human Research Protection, a national network dedicated
to ensuring ethical standards in medical research, published the
documents on 26 July.
The published documents confirm earlier news accounts that a government
expert with the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, Dr Andrew Mosholder, found
that children taking antidepressants were twice as likely to become
suicidal as children taking placebo. He reportedly urged the agency to
follow the lead of British health authorities by warning doctors that
the risks of the newer antidepressants, except fluoxetine, might
outweigh the benefits when used in children.
The leaked documents show his data and conclusions. The FDA has
subsequently acknowledged to the BMJ that Dr Mosholder was prevented
from presenting his report at an advisory committee meeting on 2
February and was told that if he was asked any questions during the
meeting he could respond to queries only by using a prepared script
approved by his supervisors.
Dr Mosholder had evaluated data from 22 studies using nine drugs in 4250
children and found that 74 of the 2298 children taking antidepressants
had a "suicide related event" compared with 34 of the 1952 children
taking placebos.
When questioned about the decision to suppress Dr Mosholder's report, Dr
Robert Temple, associate director for medical policy in the FDA's drug
evaluation centre, defended the agency's actions. "We thought the
analysis was premature," he told the BMJ.
Both the raw data and Dr Mosholder's interpretation were "imperfect"
said Dr Temple, adding that some of the behaviours labelled "suicidal"
were highly suspect and could have been accidents, such as a child "who
hit her head with her hand." FDA officials acknowledged, however, that
some cases classified as "accidental injury" could be suicide related.
Because of this, the FDA has contracted with Columbia University to
further study and classify events that might be considered to be suicide
related.
Some of these events, he added, such as superficial cutting, "might be
due to anxiety" and not represent true suicidal intent.
Dr Thomas Laughren, the FDA's team leader for psychiatric drug products,
told the BMJ that he had reported the relative risk ratios of all the
drugs evaluated at the advisory meeting and that it was Dr Mosholder's
conclusions, and not the data, that were withheld.
Responding to critics who say studies of antidepressants other than
fluoxetine show little or no efficacy in children, Dr Temple said
absence of proof should not be interpreted to mean the drugs are
ineffective.
Dr Jerome Hoffman, an epidemiologist and professor of medicine at the
University of California at Los Angeles, told the BMJ that the flip side
of Dr Temple's claim that antidepressants in children could be
life-saving is that they could be life threatening-as suggested by Dr
Mosholder's report.
"Most Americans undoubtedly believe that the FDA demands reasonable
evidence that a drug is safe before it is allowed to be used," said
Professor Hoffman. "But this episode suggests that they reject this
`precautionary principle' in favour of the idea that no drug is
dangerous unless it is `proven' to be so."
"The FDA... attempted to silence Dr Mosholder [but] repeatedly claimed
to `support his concern' for the safety of children," added Professor
Hoffman, "but this apparently didn't extend to supporting his desire to
express that concern publicly. That may be the most dangerous aspect of
this entire affair."
The FDA has launched a criminal investigation to find out which
employees leaked Dr Mosholder's report. Meanwhile the suppression of the
report has triggered Congressional investigations by Senator Charles
Grassley, who has interviewed employees in the agency's Office of Drug
Safety, where Dr Mosholder worked.
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The Really Healthy Disease Proofing Vegetable!
Over the last weeks, if you've read all the Food Of The Week columns you
can see how fruits and vegetables are disease fighters extraordinaire!
This week isn't going to change that and in fact is one of the best yet.
I advocate eating at least 50% to 60% of your foods as raw fruits and
vegetables daily to get the maximum nutritional value out of them.
When it comes to nutritional value, broccoli is at the top. It is rich
in vitamins, high in fiber, low in calories and contains as much calcium
as milk and much healthier. By including broccoli regularly in your diet
you can reduce and prevent ailments like cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis
and heart disease.
Want to know how to beat prostate cancer? Your physician will probably
tell you to take prescription drugs. That's the pharmaceutical industry
trained doctor's answer who has been brainwashed to give that answer.
For a dual killer of those nasty illnesses mix tomato and broccoli, and
even helps reverse breast cancer, colon cancer, leukemia and other
cancers of the body.
Why not something that is safer that your body is built to accept 100%
and is proving to be far better for fighting diseases.
This green vegetable looks like a bush should be on everyone's plate on
a regular basis, if they wish to stay healthy! Has been around for more
than 2000 years. During the 16th century, the plant was grown in Italy
and France. It began to be commercially grown in the United States in
the 1920s. The word "broccoli" derives from the Italian 'Brocco' meaning
arm branch. Broccoli is related to cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels
sprouts.
Broccoli is an antioxidant rich food filled with the minerals Calcium,
Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium,
Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium.
Rich in vitamins such as; Vitamin C, Thiamin,
Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid,Vitamin B-6,
Folate, Folic acid, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin A,
Retinol and Vitamin E. broccoli really delivers in the
nutrition department.
A University of Illinois-Urbana study found that rats eating a
combination of broccoli and tomatoes had a lower rate of tumor growth
than rats eating broccoli or tomatoes separately. Researcher John
Erdman said the two foods bring out the best in each other, and maximize
the cancer-fighting effect of the nutrients they contain. You might
consider mixing the two for optimum illness fighters!
When choosing broccoli in the market, select organic heads that have
tight and compact bud clusters with an even dark color. The stems should
be a lighter green than the buds and easy to pierce with a fingernail.
Avoid stalks with yellowed or open bud clusters and stems that are hard
and dry. Broccoli can be stored, unwashed, in a plastic bag in the
refrigerator crisper for days. Before use, wash by rinsing in
purified/filtered water with a splash of vinegar for disinfectant.
Our favorite ways of eating broccoli are steamed with a splash of
seasoned rice vinegar, or raw with other veggies as a salad with lemon
juice and virgin olive oil or flax seed oil as dressing. Also we like
raw broccoli flowerets with sliced tomatoes and sliced sweet onions.
Grandchildren like them with a bit of ranch dressing, which I don't
think of as healthy but a little once in a while isn't going to kill
them and it gets them to eat the broccoli! I try to make it fresh so
it's not quite as lethal.
Here is a great recipe:
Broccoli with Garlic
1 bunch of broccoli, OR 1 pound of frozen chopped broccoli
2 medium fresh tomatoes (cut into bite size pieces)
6 garlic cloves
1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons purified/filtered water
1/4 teaspoon hot (cayenne) pepper (optional)
Wash broccoli and cut into small florets. Cut the tender parts of the
stem into smallish cubes or save add to stew or make Broccoli Slaw.
Steam in a microwave steamer or over boiling water until barely tender
and still bright green (about 3-1/2 to 5 minutes in a microwave,
depending on the volume of broccoli and water). Don't overcook! For
all cruciferous, this is a very important guideline!
Place olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Chop or mince the
garlic. When the oil is hot, add the salt, then the garlic. Saut?
stirring frequently, just until the garlic starts to soften. Quickly
add the water, and the cayenne if desired. Turn heat low and simmer for
a couple of minutes.
Place the broccoli and fresh tomatoes in a large glass or crockery
serving bowl. Pour the garlic mixture over it, mixing gently to coat
each piece evenly. Serve and enjoy.
Chill leftovers and add to salad the next day.
Now go get some broccoli for your next meal, enjoy and know you are
eating for health!
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Study: Heart Drug Use Resulted in Deaths
By STEPHANIE NANO
NEW YORK (AP) - New research shows that soon after doctors
started prescribing a drug for congestive heart failure more
widely, the number of patients who died from a side effect
increased.
The researchers say their findings illustrate what can happen
when doctors apply drug-study results to their own patients.
They suggest that some of the patients probably shouldn't have
been given the heart failure drug and that doctors weren't
checking for dangerous potassium buildup.
"I have no doubt that in the right patients and with careful
monitoring that this is still a good drug combination," said Dr.
David N. Juurlink, one of the Canadian researchers. "It's just
when we prescribe it more widely and maybe we don't monitor
patients quite as closely as we should, then that's where we get
into trouble."
Juurlink and others believe the same thing is happening in the
United States as in Canada where the study of the decades-old
drug, spironolactone, was conducted.
A major study five years ago found that adding spironolactone to
the standard treatments cut the death rate by 30 percent in
people with serious heart failure.
The new study looked at what happened after that, when doctors
put more patients on the medicine. It was done by the Institute
for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, a health care research
organization in Toronto, and is reported in Thursday's New
England Journal of Medicine.
"It's a caution that all the safeguards that are in place in a
controlled clinical trial are not present out in practice," said
Dr. Biff Palmer of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School in Dallas, who wrote a related journal article on
preventing and treating high potassium.
About 5 million Americans have heart failure, which occurs when
a weakened heart can't pump enough blood throughout the body,
causing swelling and fluid to back up in the lungs.
Spironolactone, also known as Aldactone, helps the kidneys get
rid of excess water and salt but can lead to potassium buildup
in the blood. High levels can cause irregular heartbeats or
sudden death.
The Canadian researchers examined whether the use of
spironolactone had increased after the 1999 research, and what
impact it was having on patients who take a standard ACE
inhibitor and had been sick enough to be recently hospitalized.
ACE inhibitors relax the blood vessels and lower blood pressure
but can contribute to high potassium when combined with
spironolactone.
The researchers tracked prescription and hospital records from
1994-2001 for about 1.3 million residents of the province of
Ontario who were over 65.
"We found when the drug took off in mid-1999, so did rates of
hospitalization for high potassium and deaths in hospital
associated with that," said Juurlink.
Prescription rates for spironolactone increased fivefold, and
hospitalizations and deaths from high potassium tripled. The
number of heart patients hospitalized jumped from 4 to 11 per
1,000; deaths rose from 0.7 to 2 per 1,000.
In Ontario alone, researchers estimated that broader use of
spironolactone resulted in 73 additional hospital deaths and 560
more hospitalizations in 2001 than would have been expected.
They said that would correspond to about 4,200 more deaths from
high potassium and 37,000 more hospitalizations a year in the
United States when applied to patients with milder heart
failure.
Researchers think doctors may have prescribed higher doses than
needed or given the drug to patients with other ailments like
diabetes and kidney problems that could put them at higher risk
for high potassium. Palmer said doctors should ask about
over-the-counter drugs, herbal remedies and foods that could
contribute to potassium problems.
Dr. Willem Remme, who helped conduct the 1999 study, said he is
glad that doctors are prescribing spironolactone but they need
to pay attention to how it was used in the study.
"This reflects the lack of education of doctors, I think, and
that's what worries me most," said Remme, director of the
Sticares Cardiovascular Research Institute in the Netherlands.
Feds Accused of Exaggerating Fire Impact
By SCOTT SONNER
MOSQUITO RIDGE, Calif. (AP) - The Forest Service exaggerated the effect
of wildfires on California spotted owls in justifying a planned increase
in logging in the Sierra Nevada, according to a longtime agency expert
who worked on the plan.
Other wildlife biologists inside and outside the Forest Service confirm
that at least seven of 18 sites listed by the agency as owl habitat
destroyed by wildfires are green, flourishing and occupied by the rare
birds of prey.
The new disclosures - in interviews with The Associated Press, tours of
the areas in question and reviews of hundreds of pages of documents -
raise new questions about the agency's conclusion in January that
significantly more logging of bigger trees must be allowed to protect
the region's oldest forests.
The Forest Service's claim that an average of 4.5 owl sites a year have
been lost to Sierra wildfires over the past four years is included in a
plan to reduce wildfire threats and in a controversial agency brochure.
The "Forests with a Future" brochure already is under fire from some
members of Congress and others who say the agency misrepresented forest
conditions in California by substituting photographs from Montana.
"I'm real uncomfortable with the constant portrayal of fire in the
environment as a negative thing - all hellfire and brimstone," said
Michael Gertsch, a Forest Service wildlife biologist since 1976. Gertsch
said he was removed last year from the team that wrote the plan to
manage the 11 national forests in the Sierra Nevada after he complained
repeatedly about the agency's mischaracterization of the effect fires
have on the owl, which is dependent on old stands of trees.
An important statement that put fire threats in perspective was stricken
from the final version of the plan published in January, Gertsch told
The Associated Press.
"It was dropped because the conclusion of my analysis was that fire
appears to be more of a maintenance mechanism than a destructive force
for owl habitat," said Gertsch, who works as the agency's Pacific
Southwest regional coordinator of threatened and endangered species.
"The only reason the revisions were made was to allow logging of bigger
trees," said Chad Hanson, director of the John Muir Project, which is
appealing the plan to Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth. "It was a gift
to the timber industry."
Forest Service regional spokesman Matt Mathes said any discrepancies
between the data used to calculate effects on owls and forest conditions
are due to outdated figures "and not an intentional attempt to mislead."
"We went with what we knew at the time. They were lost at the time the
draft went out. Things change on the ground," Mathes said.
An AP tour of two owl habitat sites reported destroyed by fire according
to the Forest Service showed mostly green forests. In the worst case,
about one-third the forest area had burned. Forest Service biologists
confirmed one of the sites remained inhabited by spotted owls and
acknowledged the other could support the birds.
The same seems true across much of the Sierra, according to agency
experts and others.
A wildlife biologist who surveyed owl sites for the Forest Service near
Lake Tahoe from 1999 to 2001 said her visits to six of 18 Sierra sites
the agency lists as lost to fire since 1999 found mostly green stands
capable of supporting the owls, including several occupied by the birds.
Two Forest Service biologists in the field confirmed all three sites
labeled "lost" in the Tahoe National Forest are occupied by owls. The
agency's regional office apparently mischaracterized the situation based
on mistaken or outdated data, they said.
A third said the same is true of an owl site in the Eldorado National
Forest west of Lake Tahoe, and a fourth said the same thing about at
least three owl sites listed as "lost" at the Plumas National Forest 50
miles northwest of Reno, Nev.
"They are not lost. We had owl surveys conducted after the burn and were
able to put owls at each one," said Gary Rotta, a biologist for the
Plumas National Forest's Mount Hough District.
Mathes acknowledged owls may inhabit some of the sites - which are
typically 300 to 400 acres - but he insisted that won't last for long.
Sometimes they remain "among black stems for as long as two years after
a wildfire goes through. But eventually the owls do leave," Mathes said.
"You and I could live in a cardboard box on the sidewalk for a certain
amount of time. But not for long and you almost certainly wouldn't
create offspring."
Critics said the agency is intentionally exaggerating the fire impacts
to build a case for more logging.
"It's a really twisted argument," said Monica Bond, the biologist who
surveyed owls for the Forest Service at the Eldorado and Tahoe national
forests and now works for the Center for Biological Diversity, another
conservation group appealing the plan.
"They are using concerns over the owl and concerns about loss of habitat
as justification to do more logging of the habitat," she said.
"The claims that fire is eliminating spotted owl habitat in the Sierra
Nevada does not appear to be based on any surveys or site-specific
analysis of owl survival and occupancy."
The Forest Service first cited a decline in spotted owl nests due to
fires in 2003 when agency officials under the Bush administration
announced plans to revamp the Clinton-era forest strategy. The Clinton
plan had made most of the Sierra's remaining old-growth forests off
limits to logging.
But the agency said that policy no longer was workable because of
increased fire dangers and revised it to allow for up to a tripling of
logging levels to thin the overly dense stands and protect communities
and wildlife.
Jack Blackwell, the Forest Service's regional boss in charge of the new
plan, cited the loss of owl habitat in issuing the amended version Jan.
22. It's currently before Bosworth, who is considering a number of
administrative appeals filed by environmentalists.
"Large, old trees, wildlife habitat, homes and local communities will be
increasingly destroyed unless the plan is improved," Blackwell said,
specifically citing the recent loss of owl habitat.
Timber industry leaders and their allies in Congress cheered the move.
"The Forest Service is taking steps to reform the outdated management
policies left in place by the Clinton administration," said Rep. Richard
Pombo, R-Calif., chairman of the House Resources Committee.
"The plan recognizes fire is the single greatest threat to communities,
endangered species like the California spotted owl and the overall
health of the forests," he said.
The California Forestry Association, though still critical of some
parts, agreed the changes "would protect the largest amount of wildlife
habitat from current wildfire threats."
Bosworth is to rule before the end of the year on the administrative
challenges.
Gertsch said the new plan was a flawed process in comparison to Clinton
administration forest rules he helped write and which were adopted in
the closing days of the administration.
"Snippets were taken from science, but they didn't listen to the science
community," Gertsch said. Communities also were not involved in the
process, he said.
"I fought and fought and fought and fought and finally they used some
excuse and removed me from the team," he said.
Mathes said he cannot discuss "personnel issues or transfers." Agency
documents frequently are revised between draft and final stages, he
said.
"We are like any other large organization. We have a diversity of
professional opinion," Mathes said.
Jerry Franklin, a University of Washington forester who played a lead
role in developing plans to protect the northern spotted owl in the
1990s, is among the prominent scientists who has spoken out against the
changes.
"I believe it is a major step back from the ecologically sound approach
that had been adopted," Franklin said.
"These large trees of fire resistant species are needed for both fire
resiliency and as habitat," he said.
Regardless of criticism and discrepancies in the plan, the agency stands
behind its conclusion that more logging is needed to protect the owls.
"Whether or not there is a mix-up or a simple error, our thought process
in reaching the decision was not based only on what has happened but
what will happen in the future," Mathes said.
"Fires are getting bigger and hotter," he said. Owl habitat has been
destroyed and "we expect that trend to continue in the future, perhaps
even accelerate, if we don't take some action to change the density of
the forest."
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