Re: Gout from Lipitor damage? NAPROXEN increases heart attack risk. BEWARE

From: Don Kirkman (donkirk_at_covad.net)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:37:53 -0800

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Sharon Hope wrote in article
<gY3zd.237326$5K2.175138@attbi_s03>:

>The FDA advisory includes specific instructions to patients. That quite
>obviously constitutes a warning. That is why the news media made it so
>widely known.

>You may split hairs with the FDA if you object to the words they chose, but
>it is clear that the advisory is a warning.

Actually they did not use the words "warn[ing]" nor did they say
categorically that Naproxen "increases heart attack risk;" those are
your words that are being called into question. An advisory is just
that, information about a possible event that a person with common sense
would watch out for; a warning is information about a clear and present
danger--don't you distinguish between a tornado advisory and a tornado
warning? The weather service does.

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-- 
Don
donkirk@covad.net

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