More FDA warnings on pain killers.

Important alert on the painkiller fentanyl. CNN has an update on the FDA alert and it's implications.

This again points to the issue of big pharmacy and the FDA's issuing and monitoring of drugs in the US market. There are a lot of drugs rushed to market or not studied for the long term, and yesterdays asthma drug alerts, coupled with others this week brings warnings on over 9 separate drugs in just the last week.

Of course, there is always going to be an issue between the desire to get ground breaking drugs to market as quickly as possible, and taking enough time to test them for long term side effects. However as the number of suspect or confirmed drugs that are showing up with unexpected side affects raises concerns, and i'm sure there will be a fresh inquiry into what if any thing was known before these drugs were approved.