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October 2, 2008, 7:26 pm
FDA Contract: Prescription for a Big Headache
Alicia Mundy reports on drug regulation.

It’s unusual for a regulator and the industry it regulates to share the same public relations firm.

But that’s just what’s happened with the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying arm.

Qorvis Communications, an influential PR group in Washington, was hired this year by the FDA as a subcontractor to help heal the agency’s ailing image with a $300,000 “FDA 2008 Public Awareness Campaign.” Qorvis, however, has been working for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the Washington-based lobby for drug makers, since 2006.

Ironically, the FDA has been under fire for being too lax in enforcing drug safety regulations with PhRMA’s members – and the big effort to burnish its reputation has backfired.
Qorvis also has been representing UST Inc., whose U.S. Smokeless Tobacco unit is the largest American maker of chewing tobacco, which supports a controversial bill in Congress that would allow the FDA to regulate the tobacco industry. The FDA commissioner has opposed the bill. UST is being acquired by Altria Group...........................this was in yesterdays Wall Street Journal...maybe if they did their job right they wouldn't need a publi relations group to up its image,maybe if they separated themselves from the drug companies we would believe them

As a pediatrician I write for Singulair every day.
The medication is for allergies.
Allergies cause a cascade of event that I will describe:
adenoidal swelling, leads to snoring + sleep disturbances. Poor sleep makes the child tired the next day leading to less attentiveness, hyperactivity and eventually acting out.
Almost 4 out of five kids with allergies have those subsequent symptoms, and more.
Over the years the child poor behavior his parents, teachers and peers respond of criticism/ ridicule, and punishments, cause the child to feel inadequate, embarrassed, frustrated and eventually depressed and suicidal.

Yes, Singulair does cause behavioral change but they appear within the first couple of pills, the rest is due to allergies and lack of medical care, i.e. sleep, Singulair, and Zyrtec deficiency.
Allergy shots cause 4 times the incidence of suicidally than Singulair, and Ritalin 10 times more.
Check it, it's true.