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“The FDA will accept a certain level of risk for a new treatment that is to be applied to a group of very sick…

— Jonathan Slack

There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he can to save…

— Dr Cecil Vaughn

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a…

— Alex Tabarrok

When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million…

— Francis Collins

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It's…

— Scott Gottlieb

There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.…

— Marcia Angell

If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll…

— Leroy Hood

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials…

— Marcia Angell

A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer…

— Ted Gup

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients…

— Atul Gawande