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Why You Can’t Trust Drug Side Effect Information! Doctors and patients rely on drug side effect information found in online databases. What if that evidence is flawed?
Diabetes
Joe Graedon
May 19, 2025
Where do you go when you want to know whether a symptom you are experiencing is related to your medicine? Many people type the name of their drug into a Google search. At the top of the list will be “side effects” and links to places like MedlinePlus, Mayo Clinic, GoodRx, Drugs.com, WebMD, Cleveland Clinic or RxList. But where does the drug side effect information actually come from and is it reliable?
Long story short here every phase of bringing anew drug to market is pre-destined by big pharma.they buy off everyone,evey agency,the media, and polticians so they can't lose. That all has to change.
goto “drug X” “package insert”
for example https://uspl.lilly.com/mounjaro/mounjaro.html#pi
Note any Black Box warnings at the top of the insert —this is the bad stuff that the manufacturer was made to highlight.
Then goto WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS . Also closely at the material under Adverse Reactions tables, including the footnotes.
If it is newer drug, like Mounjaro in my example, then the Package Insert will reference the drug studies used for licensure (example Mounjaro NCT04039503). Then search for that on PubMed for the publication(s) coming from that study data. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35133415/ This will have lots of AE data.
If you goto the link Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04039503, then you can see the source of the data for the peer-reviewed publication. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04039503 Scroll down to the Results Posted tab. Go in there and see Adverse Events. Note the results will be displayed by the study research group including placebo.
This data is as close to the Medical Research Report prepared internally by the drug company that you are going to find.