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Top FDA official overrules staff to approve gene therapy that failed trial (arstechnica.com)
21 points by Bender on June 22, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


How does this not trigger an immediate investigation of this guy… he might not be wrong about approving it… but I would want to be dang sure he is not getting a kickback or some other misc benefit.


There appears to be a new phenomenon where patient advocacy groups are able to pressure the FDA into approving medications for conditions with no existing treatment (I found out about this when reading the fact sheet that came with a medication that kept stating it had no statistically significant effect for the thing it had been prescribed for - as to why my doctor even prescribed it is another story). The people providing this pressure are either stock puppets or just desperate for hope, but either way the fact that the FDA will ever cave like this is horrendous.




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