Thus, in addition to a wide range of other side effects, adverse events for MS drugs include the possibility of serious and even life-threatening infections.
And, of course, the problem of accounting for unknown adverseeffects has never been more acute for the drug industry, with intense and costly political controversies over the safety profile ofdrugs like Vioxx and Avandia leading to panic among patients, outrage among politicians, and the inevitable endgame of costly withdrawals and lawsuits.