The Internet of scary things

Posted Feb 12, 2017 1:24 UTC (Sun) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: The Internet of scary things by Cyberax
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Oh, and you never addressed the part about how the decision was made by focusing on the drug company's studies and ignoring conflicting results from other studies, nor the resignation in disgust as a result.

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The Internet of scary things

Posted Feb 12, 2017 2:37 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Again, FDA balances several conflicting concerns. This is a case of a drug for a disease that does NOT have any effective cures available and toxicity studies have shown no significant ill effects. Had it been a new painkiller or blood thinner you can bet they would have kicked approval application all the way to Greenland.

And are you saying that FDA is corrupt because it approves drugs? Really? Do you know that 90% of drug candidates fail the FDA-mandated trials? About 70% fail the Phase II trial and 50% of drugs fail the Phase III trials: http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/phase-iii-tria...

Does that look like an agency that is at beck and call of pharma companies?

I recommend reading blogs of actual pharma scientists ( http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/23/... is a good place to start) to at least start to appreciate what FDA does.