A Little Knowledge: The FDA's Public Approach to Safety
The FDA's loudest critics on the safety issue have changed how FDA works-particularly in its far more public sharing of risk information. In a series of four interviews with FDA experts we explore the implications of these and other changes to the FDA's approach to safety. But one summary point: instead of trying to defend its record against an ever-increasing safety standard, the FDA--and some companies, too--are trying to teach consumers that all drugs have risks by informing them directly and frequently and thereby inoculate them against the more extreme requirements of the product-safety lobby.
By Roger Longman
The Food & Drug Administration has always had critics on each side of the risk-benefit divide—those who are most concerned about drugs' side-effects and those who are most concerned about...
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