Pharmaceutical regulation is driven by horror stories like the sulfanilamide elixir and thalidomide. From Wordnik.com. [Technological Nightmares (Lecture)~ Six Concerns] Reference
Antibiotics were first discovered in the early 1900's when a drug called sulfanilamide was found to protect people from fatal bacterial infections such as pneumococcus. From Wordnik.com. [Vaccine Science] Reference
The result was that we had an inordinately high number of crashes as time went on, and sulfanilamide an early antibiotic could be bought on the streets of Kunming while Chinese troops in the field were dying of infection. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
Examples include: severe toxicity from the use of arsenic to treat syphilis deaths from a solvent (ethylene glycol) used in sulfanilamide preparations (one of the first antibiotics) thousands of children born with severe birth defects resulting from pregnant women using thalidomide, an anti-nausea medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Toxicity testing methods] Reference
Fortunately, I’ve some sulfanilamide tablets. From Wordnik.com. [Left to Die] Reference
From the same hoopy froods that brought you vioxx, thalidomide, des, premarin, sulfanilamide, Baycol, Depo-Provera, now comes Gardasil, fast-tracked, no long term longitudinal studies, never proven effective in the targeted age range, and just so happens to be the most expensive vaccine ever produced. From Wordnik.com. ["What kind of people supply schoolgirls to a pharmaceutical company...?"] Reference
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