Almost two years after Public Citizen first asked the Food and Drug Administration to increase its warnings about the risks associated with Cipro and other fluorquinolone antibiotics, the FDA has finally gotten around to doing something. While these antibiotics are very popular, an alarming number of people who have taken them have suffered tendon ruptures. I talked to a South Florida man on the phone the other day who had three tendon ruptures before he came across information on the internet that linked fluorquinolone antibiotics to his injuries. You have wonder if the FDA could have spared him some grief if it hadn’t taken so long to act.
Archive for July 8th, 2008
We told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 2005 and again in 2007 how it could improve its auto crash test information program. (This information gives car buyers an idea of how safe a vehicle is.) The Government Accountability Office told the agency similar things in 2005 too. So you would think that NHTSA would have heeded the advice and really strengthened this program, which has been sorely out of date for years. But no. NHTSA today, in announcing improvements to the program, still didn’t address glaring omissions.
