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Hi All,
There is new research out about the accumulation of gadolinium in the brain that is so important to MS patients that if you don't read this you are still going to hear about it in the next couple of months. In fact, the FDA will likely have to remove a few of the gadolinium based contrasting agents from the market is my guess.
Here's a link to the information you need to read or will likely hear about anyway. How could they do this to MS patients? It is beyond unconscionable.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/842107
There is new research out about the accumulation of gadolinium in the brain that is so important to MS patients that if you don't read this you are still going to hear about it in the next couple of months. In fact, the FDA will likely have to remove a few of the gadolinium based contrasting agents from the market is my guess.
Here's a link to the information you need to read or will likely hear about anyway. How could they do this to MS patients? It is beyond unconscionable.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/842107
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Here is a lengthy article I found about it today (in part):
Nine gadolinium-based contrast agents are sold in the United States. The two in question, Omniscan, made by GE Healthcare, and Magnevist, manufactured by Bayer HealthCare, once dominated the contrast agent market. Both GE and Bayer, in statements, said they were monitoring the issue and noted the new studies had not found any clinical impact, such as brain injury.
As ProPublica has reported, contrast agents like Omniscan had been on the market for years when, in 2006, they were linked to a crippling, sometimes fatal condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, or NSF. The Food and Drug Administration put a black box warning on the drugs the following year, saying patients with kidney impairment may be at risk of NSF because they were unable to excrete the gadolinium.
ProPublica first disclosed in 2009 that the agency ignored two of its own medical reviewers who wanted to ban Omniscan for patients with severe kidney disease. In 2010, the FDA did act, recommending that GEs drug and two other agents shouldnt be used in patients with impaired kidneys. The other drugs were Magnevist and Optimark, sold by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
The new studies cited by Kanal and Tweedle have set off alarms because they show that even patients with healthy kidneys are retaining gadolinium from Omniscan and Magnevist. Estimates are that about one-third of the 20 million MRIs in the United States each year use one of the nine contrast agents.
More about it here and yes, it sure can mess up your kidneys among other things!
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31346-left-in-the-brain-potentially-toxic-residue-from-mri-drugs#
No thanks and NEVER again after reading this!!