Avastin & FDA: There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient
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?
The FDA, Avastin, and death panels
“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
How the FDA limits access to life-savings drugs
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.
Hey FDA, government doesn’t ban cars because people drive them off cliffs
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.
The FDA, Avastin, and your life
Paul Hsieh, MD of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine writes: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of taking the highly unusual step of “decertifying” the cancer drug Avastin that it had previously approved. In addition to sparking concerns that this is another step towards medical rationing, the FDA’s proposal will […]
