Health Buzz: FDA Panel to Gauge Tanning Bed Risks

A tanning ban is absolutely necessary. If we're going to ban kids under 18 from smoking, we should do the same for tanning. Please, FDA, let's help the shortsighted. After watching this, http://bit.ly/bRIZUg, how can we NOT ban it?

Claire of NY 10:24AM March 26, 2010

why in the world is the FDA looking at Tanning beds . Below are some statistics on the amount of drugs that dont work and i will share this there are drugs out there in development or sitting on a shelf some were that work but could cause profits to be lost if a disease is cured.

Dr Roses said doctors treating patients routinely applied the trial-and-error approach which says that if one drug does not work there is always another one. "I think everybody has it in their experience that multiple drugs have been used for their headache or multiple drugs have been used for their backache or whatever.

"It's in their experience, but they don't quite understand why. The reason why is because they have different susceptibilities to the effect of that drug and that's genetic," he said.

"Neither those who pay for medical care nor patients want drugs to be prescribed that do not benefit the recipient. Pharmacogenetics has the promise of removing much of the uncertainty."

Response rates

Therapeutic area: drug efficacy rate in per cent

• Alzheimer's: 30

• Analgesics (Cox-2): 80

• Asthma: 60

• Cardiac Arrythmias: 60

• Depression (SSRI): 62

• Diabetes: 57

• Hepatits C (HCV): 47

• Incontinence: 40

• Migraine (acute): 52

• Migraine (prophylaxis)50

• Oncology: 25

• Rheumatoid arthritis50

• Schizophrenia: 60

jamie of SC 5:13PM March 25, 2010