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Antidote Europe welcomes recent French media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Antidote Europe welcomes recent media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines (the latest are the drugs\u00a0mediator<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0buflomedil<\/strong>). The French-based\u00a0NGOfully endorses this latest expose that reveals the enormous gulf between reliable scientific methods and some of the currently used tests, which are hopelessly out of date.<\/p>\n

All medical drugs are required to undergo extensive animal testing, even though animals cannot reliably predict what will happen in a human. This message was clearly brought home by the near fatal Northwick Park clinical trial involving six young men who received an experimental drug at one five-hundredth the dose found safe in monkeys. While cases like this are relatively rare, the rate of adverse drug reactions in the general population is far greater. In fact, nine out of ten drugs that pass animal tests fail to make it through clinical trials involving people (1). This begs the question of why our regulatory authorities still require animal tests. Rather than protecting the public it seems thatanimal tests actually allow many toxic products to slip through the safety net and reach the market<\/em>. As a result, about 20,000 people die of adverse drug reactions in France every year (2), making\u00a0adverse drug reactions the fourth leading cause of death<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The regulatory authorities must bear the major responsibility for the current situation, at a time when modern scientific methods are available, including such techniques as toxicogenomics and human\u00a0DNA\u00a0studies \u2014 see\u00a0https:\/\/antidote-europe.eu\/campaigns\/28-chemicals<\/a>\u00a0The u.se of such techniques could prevent further drug tragedies. The use of human\u00a0DNA\u00a0brings us ever closer to the application of \u201cpersonalised medicine\u201d, where drugs are tailor-made to suit the individual, thus reducing the risk of an adverse reaction. When it comes to the safety testing of drugs and other chemicals, people clearly are not 70kg rats.<\/p>\n

(1) Lester Crawford deputy commissioner\u00a0FDA, quoted in\u00a0The Scientist<\/cite>\u00a0(6.8.2004) \u201cInnovation or Stagnation, Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to new Medical Products\u201d.
\n(2)\u00a0Le Monde<\/cite>, 13 November 1997, quote by Bernard Kouchner, secretary of state for health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Antidote Europe welcomes recent French media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines.\u00a0 Antidote Europe welcomes recent media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines (the latest are the drugs\u00a0mediator\u00a0and\u00a0buflomedil). 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