writer, health care advocate, physician
The FDA’s accelerated approval of this drug might surprise traditional oncologists. It suggests the agency may be ditching an archaic system for classifying cancers based on body parts—like breast or liver or colon cancer—and instead will focus..
The agency’s leadership might accomplish what medicine does best: applying science humanely, so that people can get well if it’s possible, and not wait.
..as if mothers telling an FDA panel about what’s happening to their kids with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disabling condition, is the opposite of science.
In 2002, scientists reported that acrylamide forms when seemingly healthy carbohydrate-rich foods like potatoes, other root vegetables and grains are cooked at high temperatures by frying, roasting, broiling, toasting or baking.
Last week, a panel convened by the FDA deliberated over the risks and benefits of using power morcellators in gynecological surgery. In April, the agency issued an alert cautioning providers that the tools could spread malignant cells from an occult malignancy.
