While it’s been a great idea to make it government-required to list side effects and warnings in all advertising of prescriptions, I’m sure it’s become somewhat of a joke when you see that the dangers are multiple, and seem worse than the condition for what the medications are prescribed. Side effects of headache, nausea, dizziness are maybe managable.
But cancer?
Orencia, a drug prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis, lists, among other warnings about allergic reaction and serious infections and the usual pregnancy and contraindication with other meds, this:
Malignancies. There have been cases of certain kinds of cancer in patients receiving Orencia. The role of Orencia in the development of cancer is not known.
Why does it take ten years to pass government approval and yet something like this can be approved? But then again, the simple cigarette bears the warning as well.
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They say don’t take alcohol with allergy medicine.
Oh My GOD. I’m swooning over prose.
All medication carries risks. I think the only time you should be able to sue a manufacturer is if they concealed risk, if they knew about a risk and concealed it.
Just the way I see things…