You can find information about the medicines you take all over the Internet. Hype and scams surround us. So, what information can you trust?The most trustworthy source is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Only after the FDA approves a new medicine can you buy it in the U.S. Each prescription h...
What Website Can Be Trusted When Conducting Online Diabetes Research?
12/16/06 7:51am
Not only the FDA publishes information on medicines, the EMEA (European Medicines Agency) does so as well, with texts in multiple languages (i.e. the ones that are used in the European Union).
The site:
http://www.emea.eu.int/
David's Response:
Thank you for this link. I wasn't aware of it before, and it's excellent.
1/ 2/07 4:25am
While in general FDA has done a good job, diabetic persons have been very poorly served by it.
I make this comment because, for reasons that have never been properly probed, FDA banned Sacchrine sale by labelling it cancer prone.
While it was removed from the reach of diabetic patients, other new patented molecules (very costly to say the least) ruled the roost.
FDA was manipulated by drug companies and has taken no public action to make it more difficult to manipulate.
Otherwise it does a good job.
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