The FDA under Trump has consistently maintained its stated goal of removing bureaucratic obstacles to drug approval. FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, announced steps to speed the approval of new drugs, including allowing one well-designed clinical trial rather than two or more trials to show efficacy. Yet, drug companies continue to claim inconsistent guidelines, endpoints changed and a skeptical agency when it comes to rare disease therapies. Recently drugmakers have complained the FDA moved the goalposts, after agreeing to them.
Category: Experts
Have we kissed the Fourth Amendment goodbye?
The Democratic midterm campaign ads will write themselves. Images of multiple masked government agents, decked out in tactical gear, weapons drawn, restraining an individual or “perp walking” someone half-naked from a house in the snow. They will show protesters, who look like average Americans, shouting and filming. These pictures are creating very negative voter perceptions and raising serious questions, even if the Trump administration did everything right.
Wednesday Links
- More than half of all Americans take vitamin supplements. (Bloomberg)
- 41 percent of Gen Z and 47 percent of millennials who are engaged or have been married said they entered a prenup.
- The “prescribing cascade”: one drug causes side effects that doctors mistake for a new disease, triggering another prescription that creates its own problems, leaving people trapped in a sea of unnecessary and potentially harmful medications.
- A growing body of quantitative research indicates that some school-based mental health interventions actually create mental health problems.
- Why is the government under Trump investing so much money in so many private companies?
- Hospital expenses per adjusted inpatient day vary widely across states and ownership types, with costs ranging from under $700 to more than $6,000.
Attorney General Bondi wants a letter of support from me. No way.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is reportedly hitting a rough spot with President Trump. So, Department of Justice employees have started reaching out to various conservative organizations seeking praise and support. One Department of Justice staffer reached out to me. It’s not going to happen.