Saturday, June 11, 2005

FDA and drug safety

From Newday, June 9, 2005: . . . 'FDA safety officer David Graham said that after reviewing the makeup and structure of the his agency's new Drug Safety Oversight Board, he concluded that the panel is "severely biased in favor of industry" and that "the FDA cannot be trusted to protect the public or reform itself." '

The Safety Board is made up largely of FDA managers.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

A technical, scientific and political blog

New techical and scienficit ideas and developments do not seem to get much publicity these days. Some of the books on some of these subjects are very interesting.