FEBRUARY 18 - BLACK FRIDAY
Is this just a coincidence?
www.cnn.com :
President Bush wasted no time in signing a bill that he says will curtail multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits against companies.
www.canada.com :
[t]he biggest drug industry scandal since the 1960s thalidomide fiasco, turns out to be safe enough to be sold in the United States.
seattletimes.nwsource.com :
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted yesterday to let doctors prescribe COX-2 painkillers, including Vioxx and Celebrex, but backed stronger warnings about the
www.maconareaonline.com :
It's s great day for the Eichmanns of corporate America. President Bush minutes ago signed the ill-named 'tort reform' bill into law, limiting class action suits. Doubtless, Ken Lay, former Enron CEO, is grinning as are the corporate suite killers at drug maker Merck who are now safer from the widows and orphans of Vioxx victims. Closing the doors of justice to the ruined and wrecked families of boardroom bad guys is nothing less than executive clemency for executive executioners.
Frankly, I think that in their greed they have just doomed the American Pharm industry. Not many people and countries are going to trust corporationa and an FDA that clealy puts profits over lives.