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

From: Sharon Hope (shope_at_anet.net)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:39:57 GMT

Which is why I included the FDA wording with mine. YMMV

"Don Kirkman" <donkirk@covad.net> wrote in message
news:dgdrs0tmoah138v69blvt5ol2k8ncvo1lt@4ax.com...
> 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.
>
> [Balance snipped to save space; the full text is available in other
> messages]
> --
> Don
> donkirk@covad.net

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