Tamiflu warning

[kahljorn]

"that explains why my grandmother had 20 bottles of different prescribed medication in her medicine cabinet. It all started with medication for her arthritis."

Yes, often times they prescribe medicine to counter the side-effects of another medicine. The medicine to combat the old medicine often has side-effects, which needs more medicine. For example, the person I know who has epilepsy on top of anti-psychotics had to take epilepsy medicine and pain medicine. Both of those have side-effects, besides the fact that too many pills can cause liver failure.
From my understanding, EVERY medicine has side-effects; when it lists no side-effects it just means that it's so new none have been found yet. Alot of medicines start out with no side-effects, and generally has them added on as things move along. It's a self-perpetuating economical ploy for money; "Hey, that old pill has too many bad side-effects. Do you want that? You could get extra sick! try this new pill that has no side-effects and only costs 50 dollars more."
Even herbal medications have side-effects to be considered, and any good doctor would take those into mind before prescribing(but they never do).

"i also wonder if they use cheap and unsafe chemical substances to mix along with other ingredient in vaccine and pills and sell them at an outrageous price."

I couldn't say for sure because I have no knowledge of this, but i wouldn't be surprised. I can ask someone I know who knows a rather lot about pharmacuticals, though.