Why Is Big Pharma Allowed to Hawk Deadly Pills?
Submitted on November 4, 2011
By Martha Rosenberg - AlterNet
Big Pharma and the [US Food and Drug Administration] have known for years that formoterol fumarate, found in Symbicort, Dulera and Foradil, and salmeterol, found in Advair Diskus and Serevent Diskus, can paradoxically cause asthma deaths, especially in children and African Americans...But the drugs...are so lucrative...they are marketed despite their estimated US death toll of 4,000 a year. That's equal to or even more than the number who die from asthma!
