{"id":888,"date":"2004-12-30T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2004-12-30T00:03:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T00:03:35","slug":"_eric_j_topol_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Clinic Cardiologist Eric J. Topol Criticizes Drug Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heart-attack risks of arthritis painkillers Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex have exposed a regulatory &#8220;house of cards&#8221; at the Food and Drug Administration, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22+Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\">Dr. Eric J. Topol<\/a>, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.<br \/>\n&#8220;Unbridled promotion exacerbated the public health problem,&#8221; Topol concluded. &#8220;The combination of mass promotion of a medicine with an unknown and suspect safety profile cannot be tolerated in the future.&#8221;   Read <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/12\/29\/MNGFDAI9VT1.DTL\">more here<\/a>.   Topol&#8217;s Journal of American Medicine article: <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/293.3.366v1\">Arthritis Medicines and Cardiovascular Events?&#8221;House of Coxibs&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nBackground Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheweb.com\/search?cat=web&#038;cs=utf8&#038;q=%22Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22&#038;rys=0&#038;_sb_lang=pref\">alltheweb<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22\">Clusty<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=%22Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22&#038;btnG=Search+News\">Google News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=SRCHWB&#038;q=%22Dr.%20Eric%20J.%20Topol%22\">MSN Search<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=%22Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22&#038;qcat=1&#038;qsrc=0&#038;Search.x=19&#038;Search.y=6&#038;Search=submit\">Teoma<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&#038;fr=sfp&#038;p=%22Dr.+Eric+J.+Topol%22\">Yahoo Search<\/a><br \/>\nDrug advertising has truly gone off the deep end.   Driving down the beltline and seeing a nonsensical name on a billboard makes no sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart-attack risks of arthritis painkillers Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex have exposed a regulatory &#8220;house of cards&#8221; at the Food and Drug Administration, wrote Dr. Eric J. Topol, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. &#8220;Unbridled promotion exacerbated the public health problem,&#8221; Topol concluded. &#8220;The combination of mass promotion of a medicine with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}