Sanity comes slowly, slowly to pharma regulation
From the NYT story on Avandia:
From now on, drug regulatory authorities are unlikely to approve medicines simply because they help diabetics control blood sugar levels — the standard for more than 80 years. Instead, authorities are likely to insist that companies prove that their medicines improve the quality or length of diabetics’ lives.The Avandia story also marks a new and unsettling period for pharmaceutical companies because Avandia’s risks became known only after Dr. Nissen analyzed data from myriad trials that GlaxoSmithKline had been forced to post on its Web site as a result of a legal settlement. Such public postings are increasingly the norm, which means that drug makers can no longer easily hide or control scientific information about their medicines.
Comments
This is the true picture of USA health care. Scams...kickbacks and fraud! The FDA has know this drug causes heart attacks for a long time. This is criminal! The drug maker GLAXO takes in 4.4 billion$$$$ every year and the FDA was not stopping this.
The drug makers run the FDA!
A filmmaker has been reversing diabetes in now 10 countries and the drug makers do not promote this
just google SPIRIT HAPPY DIET
Posted by: MaryAnn | September 23, 2010 5:25 PM