Roaccutane: Disturbing Side Effects Linked To Acne Drug
If Roaccutane (called Accutane in the US) were a dietary supplement, you wouldn't even know its name. It would have been banned decades ago.
But after 25 years, not only is this acne medication still on the market, it's still doing harm.
Roaccutane: What's the hold up?
I won't burden you will all the details about a new Roaccutane study, published last month in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. But here are the highlights from the University of Chicago investigation of 85 cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that were believed to be related to Roaccutane use (all cases were reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1997 and 2002):
Roaccutane was found to be the 'probable cause' in 58 IBD cases
Roaccutane was found to be the 'possible cause' in 23 cases
Number of cases in which researchers found the association between Roaccutane and IBD to be 'doubtful': zero
That's pretty bad. Now here's the part that's flabbergasting.
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