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Slightly off topic.

The FDA approve drugs all the time that have far worse side effects. Take this standard anti-biotic norfloxacin, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole but it's out there and the FDA gave it the nod along with countless others advising the manufacture to add a warning label.

"As with other drugs in this class norfloxacin is also associated with severe and even fatal liver diseases"

"Acute pancreatitis has also been linked to norfloxacin"

"Serious and occasionally fatal hypersensitivity (anaphylactic) reactions, some following the first dose, have been reported in patients receiving quinolone therapy, including Noroxin"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfloxacin