Latest Legal Settlements Suggest Hazards of Making Pharmaceutical Regulation More Lenient, as is Apparently Favored by New FDA Leader

The new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb is promoting making the agency's mechanisms to approve new ...

Sympathy for the Devil - Mr Trump's Adviser on FDA Leadership Prefers Corruption to Boredom

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul...

Bozos on the Trump Health Care Bus: An Evidence-Denying Advocate, Former CEO of a Company Which Committed a $1.7 Billion Fraud, and An Internet Troll

Normally, the sorts of people who are responsible for health policy for the US government are not the most flamboyant in the world.  Governm...

Efficacy, We Don't Need No Stinking Proof of Efficacy - Says Apparent Trump Candidate to Lead FDA

Multiple media reports suggest that US president-elect Donald Trump is considering a most unusual candidate for commissioner of the Food and...

CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL

CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL There is a disconnection between the FDA’s drug approval process and the reports we see in...

The More Things Stay the Same - More Apparently Adulterated Heparin, This Time from Chinese Ruminants

The story of the contaminated heparin just will not go away.  We first wrote about it in 2008 (see first post here , most related posts here...