News Analysis - When Avandia and Other Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent - NYTimes.com: "The population is aging, many have chronic diseases. And companies are going after giant markets, huge parts of the population, heavily advertising drugs that are to be taken for a lifetime.
And the way drugs are evaluated, with the emphasis on shorter-term studies before marketing, is not helping, Dr. Carpenter said.
“Here is a wide-scale institutional failure,” he said. “We have placed far more resources and requirements upon premarket assessment of drugs than on postmarket.”"
Sunday, October 17, 2010
News Analysis - When Avandia and Other Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent - NYTimes.com
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