Here’s a great op-ed about how politics is undermining the FDA and medical progress …
Wrongly Blaming The FDA
By William Hubbard
Monday, May 8, 2006; Page A19
Last month the Government Accountability Office released another report criticizing the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to ensure the safety of prescription drugs. It seems to have become great sport for public officials to revel in FDA shortcomings. Time after time in recent years, FDA scientists have warned of threats to the safety of the nation’s food and drugs, sought new resources and tools to deal with those threats, and been duly dismissed. Yet when their predictions have come true, decision makers of all political stripes rush to bemoan the agency’s failures …
The rest of op-ed can be found here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700907.html
