List: FYI At http://www.ncahf.org/pp/herbal.html
it says, "A well-established system for reporting the adverse effects of standard drugs exists, and the FDA receives 80% of suspected adverse reactions reports from ethical pharmaceutical manufacturers. " I've just spent a year on a government working group advising on medical error and the very best reference I can find is that about 1% of adverse reactions to drugs get reported. In both Australia and New Zealand less than 0.6 of 1% of deaths associated with medical error are reported and next to 0% of drug related deaths. Can you provide the evidence to back up the inference that drug companies are 'ethical' when it comes to reporting adverse reactions -- I'm not aware of any. Also, in none of the studies of medical error and drugs adverse reactions/deaths have concern about dietary supplements been expressed. Dr Lucian Leape has acknowledged this in personal correspondence. Can you please tell me where the bodies are? Over a million Americans have been killed by properly used 'ethical' drugs in the past decade -- a few handful at most have been killed by dietary supplements -- Why the gross disparity? Simple -- relatively speaking, dietary supplements are safe when used according to instructions. Regards Ron Law -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
