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Posted On: 12/24/2017 10:51:51 AM
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Chemdeps, that is another horror story. I'm glad that someone at the FDA had the decency to let these kids get the drug.
Ever since the Thalidomide disaster of the '60s the FDA has been the all-powerful supposed protector of the masses. Sometimes they indeed have prevented unsafe drugs from being marketed -- but so often, dangerous ones DO get approved, and then we see TV ads after the fact from ambulance-chasing lawyers suing the companies that made them -- which sometimes seemingly DID know it was unsafe. And then we see good, effective drugs NOT getting approved for what seem to be either political or petty jealousy motives.
For those younger readers who don't know, thalidomide was a drug that caused horrific birth defects -- no arms or legs -- in children whose mothers had taken it in pregnancy.
Ever since the Thalidomide disaster of the '60s the FDA has been the all-powerful supposed protector of the masses. Sometimes they indeed have prevented unsafe drugs from being marketed -- but so often, dangerous ones DO get approved, and then we see TV ads after the fact from ambulance-chasing lawyers suing the companies that made them -- which sometimes seemingly DID know it was unsafe. And then we see good, effective drugs NOT getting approved for what seem to be either political or petty jealousy motives.
For those younger readers who don't know, thalidomide was a drug that caused horrific birth defects -- no arms or legs -- in children whose mothers had taken it in pregnancy.
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