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FDA & price controls kill by obstructing development of life-saving medications
“Over the past two years shortages have developed for over 180 drugs, including cancer treatments. [Why?] FDA regulation, government price controls on already discounted but complex drugs, and policies that discourage the use of new medications.” Continue reading
How the FDA Impedes Innovation
[I]nnovations get better over time. But if you impede the first generation the second generation may never come into existence and, as Mandel notes, no first-generation device could satisfy the FDA’s conditions. It’s like refusing to give the Wright Brothers a license to fly because their first airplane only flew for 59 seconds. Continue reading
Posted in physicians & medical quality
Tagged FDA, medical technology and innovation
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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? Continue reading
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 Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC, prescription drugs, regulation
Tagged death panels, FDA, rationing health care United States
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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
De facto death panels: all four pieces in place
All 4 pieces are in place for gov’t to deny life-saving medicine: Health Info. Technology to track doctors, comparative effectiveness research to decide what works, Accountable Care Orgs. to control doctors’ practice, & end-of-life counseling to inform patients. Greg Scandlen explains. Continue reading
FDA prohibits doctors from acting on best judgment
FDA controls prohibit doctors from acting according to their own judgment during a patient’s heart surgery. They wanted to use a stent to repair a blockage, but they did not. Patient still is at risk for a stroke. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
FDA on your DNA: “You can’t handle the truth!”
From Paul Hsieh: Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and various forms of cancer. In response, … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged choice, FDA, genetic testing, medical technology and innovation, nanny state
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