Dear Thyroid Folks,
While surfing, I found this item below. I thought some
of you might want to read it, so I'm providing the link
and a brief quote below. Discussion of this article in
*relation to thyroid disease* is allowed, if you can find
a connection. <weak smile>
Recalled Drugs Disproportionately Dangerous for Women
http://www.allhealth.com/library/sexmatters/articles/0,11299,231822_231855,00.html
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Why the labeling omissions?
One of the reasons is that the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry, the groups
responsible for changing drug labeling, do not regularly
analyze safety data by gender.
Despite an ever-increasing number of studies showing clear
differences between men and women in the incidence,
manifestation, and mechanism of a number of diseases,
gender-based data analysis is still a rare practice, according
to Phyllis Greenberger, MSW, president of the Society for
Women's Health Research in Washington, DC.
This shortcoming of the system keeps gender-specific risks
as well as benefits buried beneath heaps of data. As a result,
both men and women are needlessly harmed by some drugs
and left in the dark about the optimal use of others.
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The site listed above claims to be sponsored by drug maker
GlaxoSmithKline and links to this address:
http://gsk.ibreathe.com/flonase/
I hope this helps (IHTH).
Pax,
Ballew Kinnaman <[log in to unmask]> 206/463-2322
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