Comments on: More on Vioxx http://www.medrants.com/archives/2250 Contemplating medicine and the health care system Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alice Mae Thompson http://www.medrants.com/archives/2250/comment-page-1#comment-58078 Alice Mae Thompson Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:07:40 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/01/25/more-on-vioxx/#comment-58078 While you are at the business of reforming pharmacological research,which indeed it needs, put in a good word for us seniors. Drugs are prescribed for us which have not been tested for seniors at all. Our physical systems and tolerance change as we grow older - a dosage for the average person may have an adverse effect on an older person. Many times prescriptions for us have to be cut in half, at least. And that's just guesswork, because there is no research to back it up. Of course, prescriptions tailor-made for the individual would be the ideal, but, since that is out of the question, maybe we could encourage testing of a drug for older people, BEFORE we are harmed by it. While you are at the business of reforming pharmacological research,which indeed it needs, put in a good word for us seniors. Drugs are prescribed for us which have not been tested for seniors at all. Our physical systems and tolerance change as we grow older – a dosage for the average person may have an adverse effect on an older person. Many times prescriptions for us have to be cut in half, at least. And that’s just guesswork, because there is no research to back it up. Of course, prescriptions tailor-made for the individual would be the ideal, but, since that is out of the question, maybe we could encourage testing of a drug for older people, BEFORE we are harmed by it.

]]> By: MeetingsNet: Home to the Meetings Group Magazines http://www.medrants.com/archives/2250/comment-page-1#comment-23203 MeetingsNet: Home to the Meetings Group Magazines Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:13:08 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/01/25/more-on-vioxx/#comment-23203 [...] 8; JournalClub skips that controversy in favor of the one about Vioxx and the 140,000 MIs. DB s Medical Rants chimes in, saying, "Vioxx has a new place in history - that of a [...] [...] 8; JournalClub skips that controversy in favor of the one about Vioxx and the 140,000 MIs. DB s Medical Rants chimes in, saying, "Vioxx has a new place in history – that of a [...]

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