Forest Pharmaceuticals

[Guest guest]

I don't want to set off any alarm or despondency, but does

anybody know if the rumours I am hearing are correct, in that the FDA are suing

Forest Pharmaceuticals over certain misdemeanours concerning certain drugs they

manufactured and that Forest have stopped making their brand name 'Armour'

Thyroid. I keep hearing a little about this from different quarters but can't

seem to piece much together. Last night my sister phoned me to say she had been

sitting in her doctors waiting room and chatting with a lady who's doctor was

prescribing Armour Thyroid to her for the first time (my sister gets her Armour

by NHS prescription from this same doctor). However, when this new lady took it

to her local Pharmacy (the same one my sister goes to), the pharmacist told her

they could not get Armour as it was no longer available. They said they had

tried to source this using both Idis World Medicines and Pharmarama.

If you know more about this, please let me know.

My sister told this doctor about our web site and last night

he was looking through it to find out more about the other different brands

available which could be prescribed by the NHS, i.e. Erfa Thyroid, Nature

Throid and Westhroid - all of which the MHRA have sent letters to me saying

that doctors can prescribe these if their patients don't do well on synthetic

Thyroxine (T4)-only, but that doctors take full responsibility for this as their

medical insurance does not cover them should anything go wrong because natural

thyroid extract remains unlicensed in the UK.

Luv - Sheila

[Guest guest]

Is this what you're hearing about:

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm245543.htm

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> I don't want to set off any alarm or despondency, but does anybody know if

> the rumours I am hearing are correct, in that the FDA are suing Forest

> Pharmaceuticals over certain misdemeanours concerning certain drugs they

> manufactured > Luv - Sheila

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