Recall of Tylenol and investigation of side effects

CNN Money.com has reported (May 25, 2010) that the Food and Drug Administration is looking into reports of at least 775 serious side effects from drugs recalled by McNeil, a division of Johnson & Johnson.

The investigation concerns several hundred "adverse events" and seven deaths reported since May 1, when McNeil recalled 50 children's non-prescription medicines because of serious quality and safety concerns.

Companies are required by law to report consumer complaints of any serious side effect associated with the use of any medical product, including nutritional supplements.

There have been four (4) recalls by McNeil in the past seven months:

• In November 2009, five lots of Tylenol Arthritis Pain 100 count with the EZ-open cap were recalled for unusual odor leading to nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
• In December, the recall was expanded to include all product lots of Tylenol Arthritis Pain caplet 100 count bottles with the red EZ-open cap.
• In January 2010, the recall was widened to an undisclosed number of Tylenol, Motrin and other over-the-counter drugs after complaints of consumers feeling sick from an odor.
• Following the most recent recall, Johnson & Johnson has suspended production at McNeil's facility in Fort Washington, PA, that manufactured the children's drugs.
• McNeil has maintained that its recall of the children's drugs was not "undertaken on the basis of adverse medical events" but as a precautionary measure.

The FDA, earlier this month issued a 17-page inspection listing 20 violations at the Fort Washington plant, maintaining that the recalled drugs pose a "remote" potential for serious health problems.

1. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA April, 1998) Death due to Adverse drug reactions now account for the 4th leading cause of death in America, following heart disease, cancer and stroke. The article states that 1.5 million people are hospitalized and 100,000 die each year because of injuries linked to prescription and over the counter drugs.
2. According to the Annals of Internal Medicine, each year NSAIDS (Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory drugs) accounts for 7, 600 deaths and 76,000 hospitalizations in the United States. (NSAIDS include aspirin, ibuprofen, Advil, Naprosyn, Feldene, and Celebrex to name a few.
3. According to the Dean of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona, we spend $75 billion annually on drugs and $76 billion dollars annually to treat the side effects of drugs.
4. According to Epidemiology, March 12, 2001 low serum cholesterol levels are associated with a six-time greater risk of committing suicide.
5. According to the Archives of Internal Medicine, overuse and underuse of statin drugs (cholesterol-lowering) may be widespread, risking side effects in some people and failing to stop heart disease in others.

THE GOOD NEWS

1. According to the Surgeon General's Report physicians need to be better educated in nutrition and teach their patients about good nutrition because diseases of dietary excess account for the billions of dollars that are spent on treating Chronic Degenerative Disease Processes. These are ailments like diabetes, certain cancers, arthritis, osteoporosis, digestive disorders and hypertension to name a few.
2. It is never too late to start to be healthy again
3. Enzymes have been used successfully in Europe to treat inflammation and pain from arthritis
4. Medicine has given us quantity of life, enzyme nutrition helps restore quality of life safely and naturally
5. Once we pass the age of 60 we no longer digest protein efficiently. Protein is the vehicle that carries calcium to the muscle and the bone. You can take the best calcium supplement in the world. If you do not digest protein you will never be able to deliver that great calcium supplement to the bone. This can lead to osteoporosis.
6. You no longer have to "pop and pray" when you take supplements
7. The German Olympic team uses safe and natural enzymes to treat their athletes.
8. Functional Digestive Nutritional Testing utilizes test procedures that are reliable, reproducible and measurable to answer the following question:
   a. What is the perfect diet for YOU?
   b. What supplements should YOU be taking?
   c. What dosages of supplements should YOU be taking?
   d. How do you know when YOU need to change the dosage of the supplements; or that you don't need to take them anymore?
9. Food enzymes are considered ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS. That means that nature intended for us to obtain food enzymes in our diet to help facilitate complete digestion. It is very simple, if you do not get the essential nutrients (food enzymes) in your diet, then you predispose yourself to stressing the digestive organs which can lead to symptoms of gas, bloating, indigestion and constipation or diarrhea to name a few. Food enzymes are destroyed by cooking, pesticides, antibiotics and processing of our foods.
10. You can be and you deserve to be healthier. Eating the proper diet that is specific for you as well as taking the proper specific supplements for you is the best way to ensure optimum health.

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