Why American healthcare would be better off without the Food and Drug Administration: it causes more harm than good!
by: Isabelle Z.
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The Food and Drug Administration’s stated purpose is to protect public health, but it seems that every day it makes yet another move that actually works against us. Even if you are willing to concede that the FDA was established with good intentions, nobody who has been keeping track of its actions can honestly say that it is achieving its goals. Who is it protecting? Big Pharma, of course!
Board-certified family physician Dr. David Brownstein is so fed up with the FDA and its many incompetencies that he recently called for it to be abolished on his blog. The instances of its glaring disregard for the health of Americans are too numerous to list, but Brownstein cites two interesting recent examples of the FDA’s failures.
Proposal to ban powdered medical gloves 19 years too late
First of all, Dr. Brownstein points out that the FDA’s recent proposal to ban the majority of powdered medical gloves is about 19 years overdue. Doctors and professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, have been calling for such a ban for decades, because these gloves cause numerous problems in patients, including peritoneal adhesion formations and granulomas. The gloves have long been banned in Germany and the United Kingdom. When the director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, said, “We take bans very seriously and only take this action when we feel it’s necessary to protect the public health,” Dr. Brownstein’s response was to ask what had taken them so long.
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