How many people need must die before the FDA recalls the drug?

Question:

In regards to RU-486, 5 women have died and there had been evidence of the drugs adverse side effects, even before it was approved. How many people must die before a drug is finally approved. This is for my pharmacology class.

Answers:
RU-486 isn't nearly as lethal as aspartame, and that's in millions of bottles of softdrinks and other comestibles.

To answer your question, though, every prescription drug has adverse side effects, including lethality for some segment of the population; allergies account for most of these types of deaths that aren't penalized by the FDA.

RU-486 has low mortality rate, is used for a small segment of the population, and is well documented through years of dispensing in Europe. It's not a great risk.

Watch that aspartame, though. And Splenda's no better!

no matter what the drug is someone will die from it, asprin can kill if you are sensative to it, its a matter of numbers. sorry bout that but more women are helped by it than die, by the thousands.

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