About the Use of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals Provided by
Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children (PFPC)
Posted February 8, 2006
About the use of fluorinated pharmaceuticals...
2002
“The technique uses fluorine, the element best known
for fighting cavities that also plays a pivotal role in
modern medicine. Some 30 percent to 50 percent of all
pharmaceuticals now contain fluorine, Dobier told UPI,
because it helps boost their effectiveness.”
"According to a recent book, by 1990 around 220
fluorinated drugs were on the market, representing 8 per
cent of launched synthetic drugs, and at the time of its
publication, around 1500 were under development." -
Dr. Basil Wakefield, Ultrafine
Check on the latest news on fluorinated drugs.
Recent items include news on Celebrex
(US/Germany), Prozac (UK/Canada), Paxil (UK/USA),
Risperdal (US), Crestor (US/Canada), Lariam (US)
and Cisapride (UK).
A Poison Control Center bulletin alerting to
fluorinated drugs, written by Prof. Dzulkifli
Abdul Razak, Head of the National Poison Centre at
Universiti Sains Malaysia, from September 2, 2001.
It also appeared in the New Sunday Times.
In June 2003, the US FDA finally issued an
alert on these drugs due to concerns of increased
self-harm in children taking those medications.
The use of these drugs is so widespread that now
they are appearing in the water supply. The
article here is of technical nature - mostly
concerning effects on thyroid hormones.
Since March 2002, UPI reporters Mark Benjamin
and Dan Olmsted have been investigating severe
mental problems associated with Lariam, a drug
that has been prescribed to 5 million Americans
and 25 million people worldwide. As with other
fluorinated drugs, suicide is occurring much too
often.
After having been on the market for only three
months this drug - which had been "fast-tracked"
for approval in Japan where it became the second
fastest drug approval ever - had caused 39 deaths
(October 2002). By February 2003 that number had
risen to 167.
In October 2001 the PFPC released its
most-widely circulated Drug Alert ever, on Cipro.
The article also appeared in the Winter 2001
edition of the Journal of the Weston Price
Foundation.
This drug is now under intense investigation in
the UK. Linked to more than 100 deaths it is being
blamed for a series of gross miscarriages of
justice that have seen hundreds of parents wrongly
accused of child abuse.
On August 30th, 2001, the New York Times
reported that thirty Nigerian families sued Pfizer
in federal court August 29, saying the company
conducted an unethical clinical trial of the
antibiotic Trovan on their children in 1996.
Eleven children in the trial died, while others
suffered brain damage, were partly paralyzed or
became deaf.
In 2001 the WHO/EMEA reported of a total of 296
cases
with hepatic reactions implicating Leflunomide. Of
these, 129 cases were considered as serious,
including 2 cases of liver cirrhosis and 15 cases
of liver failure, 9 with fatal outcome. The
hepatic reactions appeared within 6 months of
initiation of treatment.
Read more...
Just like its cousin Baycol a few years ago,
the statin drug Crestor has been in recent news
because of its association with a serious
condition called rhabdomyolysis.
In the September 8, 2001 issue of the BMJ
Bharani and Kumar reported a case of diabetes
insipidus induced by ofloxacin, stating that the
mechanism of this interaction is not clear. The
PFPC responded with a possible mechanism
concerning this fluoroquinolone and “fluorine
diabetes”.
Read more...
