This one’s for Pops. He loves stories about the Militaryindustrialpetropharmacancer Complex.
Aspirin: Not Approvable
Why many familiar medicines might flunk FDA approval today
Derek Lowe
Medical Progress Today
November 17, 2005
With all the headlines in recent years about dangerous prescription drug side effects, many people must be wondering what happened to the days of safe, reliable medicines. Where are the new drugs that can get the job done safely? Where are the new aspirin, penicillin, acetaminophen?
As a drug discovery researcher, I can tell you something that might sound crazy: many of these older drugs would have a hard time getting approved today. Some of them would never even have made it to the FDA at all.
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