Recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered that in two known cases medicines that are supposed to be preventing certain things from happening, over time can end up causing them. This fact raises an issue of great importance in the world of modern medicine and presents a public policy issue of the testing period of drugs and assessing how issues like this can be prevented. The problem lies in the fact that most drugs are only tested in the premarket, for a short period of time so the long-term effects are relatively unknown. Experts are currently working to promote post-market testing, and online databases, establishing longer histories of the drug. But due to the length of the studies it will prove to be difficult.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/health/policy/17drug.html?ref=us
Ben Rains
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