Time To Stop F-ing Around at the FDA
Derek Hunter
I don’t claim to understand how other people’s brains work (or don’t, as is the case in politics often times), so I’m not going to pontificate about the rationale of “inviting someone to leave" a job and then hiring them back a week later. But that’s what has happened over at the Food and Drug Administration with Marty Makary and his close friend Vinay Prasad. Again, I don’t know why decisions were made and reversed, all I really care about is the end result of the job these people are hired to do, and in this case let us hope that the second time is the charm.
I’m a big proponent of prescription drugs, with my mother having lived longer than any of her doctors thought possible in large part thanks to them when she lost her right leg to circulatory issues when I was a child.
I’m also a big fan of the “right to try,” the first Trump administration’s push to allow terminally and chronically ill patients to take therapeutics still working their way through the approval process at the FDA. I am a “throw everything including the kitchen sink” at an illness because you never know what might work.
I hope the new FDA, which is the old FDA with newer understanding of President Trump’s expectations, will reembrace that spirit of right to try and the taking of a machete to the red tape that must be maneuvered in order to bring new treatments to market.
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