Posted by Dr. Bob on January 25, 2003, at 18:23:10
[Posted by Alan on January 25, 2003, at 14:23:40
In reply to http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030125/msgs/137490.html]
> The solution to the problem from my POV:
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> Take oversight of clinical trials away from the FDA and give it to the NIH. That is, accept as evidence only trials designed and supervised by the NIH.
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> Failing that, ban cross-employment between the FDA and any company that it regulates for 10 or 15 years in either direction. Right now, there is a revolving door between the fox's house and the henhouse. It's bad enough that regulators are hired directly from the regulated companies. It's even worse that the FDA's "internal advocate" for a drug can and often does leave the FDA after approval of the drug to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year working for the maker of the drug.
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> Actually, we probably need both of the steps above.
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> And of course we need a law placing all directly or indirectly maker-funded research about a drug into the public domain when that drug receives FDA approval.
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