FDA - approves drugs without conclusive proof they work

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FDA increasingly approves drugs without conclusive proof they work


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  • Lula73
    Lula73 Member Posts: 1,824
    edited June 2018

    there is a lot that is left out of many of theblanket statements made about particular medications called out specifically in this article. Additionally, the statement is made that FDA is fast tracking certain medications and approving based on proxy measurements like shrunken tumors vs cure or survival rates with the stipulation that the drug manufacturer complete additional studies that an take 10 years to complete. If you have already exhausted everything available or have a chronic disease that has no treatment do you want something made available today that can help or die waiting on it to be approved in that 10 year interim? It’s not like the R&D scientists are just slapping something together and submitting it...

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