FDA Eyes Tougher Labels for Acetaminophen

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The Food and Drug Administration has a consistent message to the public, linked the excess amount of the analgesic to liver failure and injury.  This discovery has made the FDA’s investigation of this problem to try to provide a warning label to give the victim an extended warning. What triggered the uproar with the FDA was the speech Dr. William Lee presented to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of American Association. In both a study now under way, and one conducted in 1999, they linked acetaminophen with liver injury and failure.  Lee’s precious research acetaminophen overdose is the most common cause on liver failure, effecting 60 out of 295 patients.  Also this can link to toxicity.  What the FDA is researching now is if the person is taking a medicine and has a separate reaction from one of their allergies or previous sicknesses.  Dr. Anthony Temple says if someone takes a overdose on Tylenol or anything there most likely going to have liver damage.  So that might link the liver damage to the acetaminophen. But they say that there should be ways to track those drug reactions without having any doubt of how the reaction happened.  Yet with all these people that suffer from this reaction, congress wont fund the FDA for its research on this, so eventually the FDA is going to need to stop its research.  The continuing efforts of the FDA to find the base of the reaction could tale several month or longer.  The final advice they gave was, “read the labels.”

 

           

            I believer this article was very informative to the constant discoveries of new diseases, disorders, or reactions.  I think this is kind of scary because who knows what their going to find next.  Could it be a soda disease, computer disease, or thinking disease?  It shocks me how they’re finding all these things out to help us, but its doing more bad than good.  Its putting fear into the public mind and heart.