It may be made available in about twenty years.
Tell me about it, especially with all the money in cancer treatments and with Obamacommie care coming up? Ah ha ha ha! I’ll say 100 years.
And then only to Party Members.
There is still a drug just sitting out there derived from a gene of an Italian family basically immune to heart disease. The gene basically cleans the arteries and was featured on 20/20 in the late 1990s.
Drug testing was almost miraculous, but it was sold to another company, then another, and that slowed it down. Who knows what’s happening now.
Yeah, after the American Cancer Society gets their due compensation and has milked the disease for every available penny.
The evil FDA will stretch out testing to 2100. I agree with Milton Friedman about government licensing. There is no moral or rational reason the FDA should exist.
In the 80s the evil FDA kept a heart drug off the market for over 10 years (it was available in Europe). At least 100,000 Americans died needlessly.
If there is some "marketplace" safety process that the FDA is chartered to achieve, it could be done orders of magnitude better in the free enterprise system (that does not include crony-capitalist statist companies)
An easy target, Dave.
My wife has Multiple Myeloma, a rare blood cancer and incurable. She has lived a year longer than predicted and going strong due to novel drugs made available at no charge by one of those rapacious drug companies.
Now I view the claim by the article as marginally believable. Cancer is too complex and its impact too individualized to get spun up by sweeping claims. But drug companies vary as do people.
“It may be available in twenty years”
So true. Getting any new drug past the FDA takes forever.
Between clinical trials, corporate aquisitions, etc., the road from the lab to FDA approval can be a long and winding one. Ten years is probably closer.