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Does the FDA Play Fair for Patients?

Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s cancer drug office

They have a tough job, those government doctors, scientists, and bureaucrats who are charged with assessing the safety and effectiveness of proposed new medical products. As you know, they rely largely on studies presented by the applicants.

The FDA has the power [...]

AT LONG LAST FDA APPROVES PROSTATE CANCER DRUG

We’ve been waiting for years. The FDA today approved the first-ever “anti-cancer vaccine.” Provenge, made by blossoming biotech company Dendreon in Seattle, is a personalized therapy designed to give a second chance for a patient’s own immune system to beat back advanced prostate cancer.

It is, by no means, for every prostate cancer patient (more [...]