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How the FDA Impedes Innovation0
- July 13, 2011
[I]nnovations get better over time. But if you impede the first generation the second generation may never come into existence and, as Mandel notes, no first-generation device could satisfy the FDA’s conditions. It’s like refusing to give the Wright Brothers a license to fly because their first airplane only flew for 59 seconds.
READ MOREAvastin & FDA: There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient0
- June 29, 2011
Last year, the FDA began the process of revoking Avastin’s approval for breast cancer. … What is the logic of keeping terminally ill patients from potential treatments? Can’t they at least go down fighting?
READ MOREThe FDA, Avastin, and death panels0
- June 24, 2011
“The FDA, stuck in its 1960s Thalidomide glory days mindset, denies Americans access to life-saving drugs. …[D]espite its intentions, [the FDA] drives up the costs of medicines & often dries up the supply chain altogether. America is currently facing a shortage of about 246 drugs – a record high.” – Milton Wolf, MD
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How the FDA limits access to life-savings drugs0
- February 11, 2011
The FDA makes the production of life-saving medications prohibitively expensive. There are better alternatives to the FDA’s authoritarian practice of banning new drugs.
READ MOREHey FDA, government doesn’t ban cars because people drive them off cliffs0
- January 24, 2011
The government doesn’t ban cars just because some idiots drive cars off cliffs; it doesn’t ban pencils because pencils can be shoved into the eye; and it [e.g., the FDA] has no business banning a painkiller just because some patients don’t know how to use it correctly.
READ MOREDe facto death panels: all four pieces in place0
- January 6, 2011
All 4 pieces are in place for gov’t to deny life-saving medicine: Health Info. Technology to track doctors, comparative effectiveness research to decide what works, Accountable Care Orgs. to control doctors’ practice, & end-of-life counseling to inform patients. Greg Scandlen explains.
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