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Here is an article that I found recently online that talks about the rise of side effects from pharmaceutical drugs:

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Big Pharma is currently engaged in all-out offensive to divert attention from the toxic effects of its drugs and to convince compliant bureaucrats that it is in fact natural supplements that need tighter regulation. New evidence, however, confirms that it is pharmaceutical drugs, not supplements, that are in need of far closer scrutiny.

Drug side effects and other related health problems reported to the Food and Drug Administration reached an all-time high in 2004. The FDA received roughly 422,500 adverse-event reports from pharmaceutical companies, health professionals and patients, up nearly 14% from the 370,887 reports filed in 2003. (more…)

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In an earlier piece, I mentioned that this drug brings back memories of the Tuskegee experiment. Honestly, I do not believe that this is a continuation of that dreadful experiment. What I do believe is that side effects that are specific to this drug will also be exclusive to black Americans. The FDA only tells us that “Some common side effects with the use of BiDil are headache and dizziness.” What are the other side effects? Are they long term? Remember, drugs like Viagra were marketed as a safe product. Just a few short years later we are finding out that blindness one of the side effects. If something similar was to come from BiDil, then the many blacks who are throwing their support behind this product will suddenly accuse the FDA of genocide.

Only time will tell.

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Apparently, time is already telling.

Heart drug for blacks has hazard

But one of its two key ingredients, a generic compound known as hydralazine hydrochloride, has long been known to cause lupus in some patients, according to FDA documents and interviews with doctors.

WHAT ARE SOME? EXACT NUMBERS PLEASE!!!

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Hat tip: Booker Rising