The FDA always points to the horrible birth defects caused by pregnant women taking thalidomide as justification for their “thoroughness”. However, the ONLY reason that US women did not get thalidomide is because the bureaucrats were sitting on their lazy fat asses and not doing their jobs.
FDA rarely removes drugs that have 50% failure rate due to horrendous side effects either.
Look up the side effects on those cholestrol drugs. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/statin-side-effects/MY00205
Lyrica...50% failure rate, and the ‘disclosure’ on TV barely touches what damage these 2 drugs alone cause.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/drug-pregabalin/article_em.htm
What they don’t mention is the sexual disfunction issue, or weight gain, or that it attacks all the Osteo A joints with extreme pain.