Survey finds Americans distrustful of FDA overall
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A new survey has found that many Americans are confused and somewhat distrustful of the U.S. government's role in keeping those expensive prescriptions medicines safe for use.In an age of drug recalls, death from side effects and unwavering drug marketing with questionable tactics, I am surprised a survey hasn't revealed this earlier. Do you understand the explicit details about all the drugs you're taking? My guess: you most likely do not. My question: why not?
I would say that more than 40 percent of Americans are on some kind of prescription drug (it's probably quite a bit higher than that), but those who are just don't innately trust oversight of these products -- but feel they have little choice when an ailment or sickness comes up.
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Please 9-24-2007 @ 4:14PM
Can we please just go ahead and drop Brian White from this blog already? He adds nothing but uninformed speculation. Take this post, for example. How hard would it be to find out what percentage of Americans use a prescription drug? Taking the five minutes it would take to answer the question would replace his entirely idle speculation ("I would say..."). What does it add for a reader to know what Brian White would guess the number to be?
FYI -- he's also wrong. CDC says 44%, which is not "quite a bit higher" than 50%. See, for example, http://www.wesh.com/health/3965650/detail.html
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Brian White 9-24-2007 @ 4:21PM
Thanks for your comment, but it is "informed" speculation I like to muse on, along with my opinion. Which, of course, you can disagree with. Straight reporting of news is, well, news. There's more to That's Fit than that. Just my 2 cents ;-)
The "44%" figure is a valid one, but is it the "only" one? I love statistics, and so do politicians.
Good catch on the "50%" figure -- that was a mistake. Three years ago, the number stood at "more than 40%."
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/12/03/Worldandnation/More_than_40_percent_.shtml
But, that was three years ago. Is it higher now? My guess is yes. And yes, that is my opinion from subjective experience.
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