What incentives does the FDA have regarding drug approvals, according to some FDA critics?
The FDA is more concerned with preventing approval of a drug that results in people dying than it is with approving a drug that benefits unidentifiable patients whose lives might be saved if the drug is approved earlier. |
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The FDA is more concerned with preventing statistical deaths than with “visible” or “identifiable” lives. |
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The FDA is too quick to approve new drugs because of pressure from drug manufacturers. |
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The FDA spends too much of its resources on post-marketing surveillance of drugs instead of on the drug approval process. |
Answer:The FDA is too quick to approve new drug because of pressure from drug manufacturers.
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What incentives does the FDA have regarding drug approvals, according to some FDA critics? The FDA...
Many consumer groups feel that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug approval process is too easy and, as a result, too many drugs are approved that are later found to be unsafe. On the other hand, a number of industry lobbyists have pushed for a more lenient approval process so that pharmaceutical companies can get new drugs approved more easily and quickly. The FDA wants to set up a hypothesis test to show that the new drug is...
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Evaluate the arical
writ the response in which you state your agreement or disagreement
with writer up un these questions guidelines
1) can empathy lead us astrary? how
2) our heart will always go out to the baby in the well, its a
measure of our humanity. but empathy will have to yield to reason
if humanity is to have a future can empathy yield to reason?
how?
thank you
The Baby in the Well: The Case against Empathy* -Paul...