New for Kids! Fatal drugs!

*Drtooth* · 11-30-2006, 12:17 PM

I thought I'd post this in contrast to my So it's come to this, has it? Thread....

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Originally Posted by Bloomberg

Pfizer Wins Approval to Sell Celebrex For Kids
Pfizer Inc. should get U.S. approval to market its Celebrex arthritis-pain releif pill for use in children because the benefits outweigh the risks, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said. The committee of outside doctors and other specialists voted 15-1 that the benefit of the drug in children outweighs a lack of evidence on its longer-term safety. The safety of the drug was questioned by the FDA in 2004 after the withdrawl of Merck& Co's similar Vioxx.

Eh! Well what do you know... We're so damn worried our kids are too damn fat, but we have no problem whatsoever drugging them up. Especially when said drug has fatal side effects. But, you know... whatever. At least they'll die when they're healthy and young and not when their middle aged and obese. it's win win!

*Duke* · 12-01-2006, 07:15 AM

First, there is a lack of evidence supporting its long term safety, but there is also no evidence that it is unsafe. They aren't giving kids a drug they know will kill them. Second, I'm sure you have absolutely no idea how crippling JRA (Juvenile Rheumatiod Arthritis) can be for a kid. It isn't a matter of someone dying young but healthy. It's more of a matter of a little kid actually being able to stand up and straighten his joints in the morning with screaming out in absolute agony. Third, no one is forcing this medication down a child's throat. There parents are probably at a very difficult cross roads in life having to choice whether or not their children should try this medication. On the one hand they do not know the longterm effects but on the other how can you stand there and just watch your child be in so much pain and do nothing. Is it not better to try the medication and give them a chance at a normal and active childhood, than to have them live to 50 or 60 and spend every waking and sometimes sleeping moment of their life in agony. Because if you asked the child, I know exactly how he'd answer.

You should really be more careful about openly condemning something you have absolutely no clue about. Maybe the benefits do really outweigh the risks.

12-01-2006, 07:15 AM	#2
Duke Mad Scientist Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,913	First, there is a lack of evidence supporting its long term safety, but there is also no evidence that it is unsafe. They aren't giving kids a drug they know will kill them. Second, I'm sure you have absolutely no idea how crippling JRA (Juvenile Rheumatiod Arthritis) can be for a kid. It isn't a matter of someone dying young but healthy. It's more of a matter of a little kid actually being able to stand up and straighten his joints in the morning with screaming out in absolute agony. Third, no one is forcing this medication down a child's throat. There parents are probably at a very difficult cross roads in life having to choice whether or not their children should try this medication. On the one hand they do not know the longterm effects but on the other how can you stand there and just watch your child be in so much pain and do nothing. Is it not better to try the medication and give them a chance at a normal and active childhood, than to have them live to 50 or 60 and spend every waking and sometimes sleeping moment of their life in agony. Because if you asked the child, I know exactly how he'd answer. You should really be more careful about openly condemning something you have absolutely no clue about. Maybe the benefits do really outweigh the risks.