"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
So this is why the FDA has been dropping the ball so often in the past ten years.
The most disturbing part of the story is that the FDA actually meets with the drug companies to negotiate the fees they're going to charge to review the drugs. Why do they even have to debate it with them? Just raise the price like the government does with any other user fee: licensing fees, toll roads, taxes. I had no idea the FDA was in the pocket of the industry to this extent. Remember this the next time you hear of some hot new drug being taken off the market for fatal side effects. posted by Sydney on
3/08/2002 07:35:00 PM
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