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Biotech / Medical : VD's Model Portfolio & Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jayhawk969 who wrote (8612)2/2/2001 8:01:15 PM
From: hm  Respond to of 9719
 
Interesting article. However, the bit quoted below is at best misleading & makes some of the reform-the-FDA rhetoric ring hollow:

"But safety is resolved in the first of three required phases for drug approval, and it is relatively inexpensive to prove. Most of that $0.5 billion is spent proving "efficacy," that a drug will perform as claimed, using massive, placebo-controlled clinical trials."

If only safety could be "proven" in Phase I....