“There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.” AttentionHappenedDrugPay AttentionNot SureDisorderDeficitShortageFdaAttention Deficit Disorder Author:Jay Leno
“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.” StatesEnoughFoundUnitedUnited StatesBirthDrugEuropeTestsAvailableCaringAdministrationContemptPillsHormonesBirth ControlAmerican WomanNot CaringFdaDosageBirth Control Pills Author:Warren Farrell
“Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.” YearsHas BeensEffortDrugCreatingPatientAidsMedicalTherapyDesperateActivistAlliesEstablishmentApprovalFrontiersProceduresHivPioneersFdaHiv AidsNew Frontiers Author:David Mixner
“If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.” IfsLittlesWould BeEffortDangerousDrugVitaminsFdaDangerous Drugs Author:Russell B. Long
“When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.” PeopleIfsPersonsFactsMightAbleCompanyMillionsHappenedDrugTrialsUnexpectedSignalsRecognizingClinicalsFdaRegistrationDrug CompaniesSomething UnexpectedClinical Trials Author:Francis Collins