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A Wilde-Mathews, Winslow B.
FDA Procedures Draw Scrutiny
The Wall Street Journal 2008 Jan 25
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120122452254515507.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Abstract:

Controversies about cholesterol drug Vytorin and diabetes drug Avandia are reigniting debate over what evidence the Food and Drug Administration requires to approve drugs — and may generate pressure on the agency to raise its bar.

The FDA’s system for approving drugs has been criticized as scrutiny grows about Vytorin, marketed by Schering-Plough Corp. and Merck & Co., in the wake of a study that raised questions about whether the widely advertised blockbuster worked better than a cheaper generic.

Yesterday, Democratic Reps. John Dingell and Bart Stupak, both of Michigan and leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent …

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909