Re: NEWS - Drug industry critic joins the FDA

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haaaaaaaaaaaaaa.  thats so funny

 

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From: <Rheumatoid.Arthritis.Support@...>

Subject: [ ] NEWS - Drug industry critic joins the FDA

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Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 5:20 PM

A Wolfe in Regulator's Clothing: Drug Industry Critic Joins the FDA

JANUARY 9, 2009

By ALICIA MUNDY

The Wall Street Journal

The pharmaceutical industry has a recurring nightmare: Drug-safety

crusader Sidney Wolfe becomes a player at the Food and Drug

Administration.

Dr. Wolfe also has a nightmare: One of his children goes to work for a

drug maker.

Of the two, the doctor is sleeping more soundly.

Over three decades, Dr. Wolfe, head of the health group at advocacy

organization Public Citizen that Ralph Nader founded, has helped push

16 drugs off the market and slap restrictions on several

multibillion- dollar products. He has been so hostile to the FDA under

President W. Bush that he decried its 100th-anniversary

celebration in 2006 as a " propaganda campaign " to hide its

" unprecedented assault on the American public. "

Now the outsider is going inside, mirroring a larger shift in the

Washington pendulum toward tougher company regulation. To the

consternation of the drug industry, Dr. Wolfe has been appointed to a

four-year term on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee,

which plays a key role in telling the agency which drugs are safe.

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Read the full article here:

http://online. wsj.com/article/ SB12314548943526 5929.html? mod=googlenews_ wsj

Not an MD

[Guest guest]

It's a field day!!! There's so many ironic and sarcastic remarks I could make I

don't even know where to begin!

Stan

Seattle, Dark

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From: " " <Rheumatoid.Arthritis.Support@...>

A Wolfe in Regulator's Clothing: Drug Industry Critic Joins the FDA

JANUARY 9, 2009

By ALICIA MUNDY

The Wall Street Journal

The pharmaceutical industry has a recurring nightmare: Drug-safety

crusader Sidney Wolfe becomes a player at the Food and Drug

Administration.

Dr. Wolfe also has a nightmare: One of his children goes to work for a

drug maker.

Of the two, the doctor is sleeping more soundly.

Over three decades, Dr. Wolfe, head of the health group at advocacy

organization Public Citizen that Ralph Nader founded, has helped push

16 drugs off the market and slap restrictions on several

multibillion-dollar products. He has been so hostile to the FDA under

President W. Bush that he decried its 100th-anniversary

celebration in 2006 as a " propaganda campaign " to hide its

" unprecedented assault on the American public. "

Now the outsider is going inside, mirroring a larger shift in the

Washington pendulum toward tougher company regulation. To the

consternation of the drug industry, Dr. Wolfe has been appointed to a

four-year term on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee,

which plays a key role in telling the agency which drugs are safe.

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Read the full article here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123145489435265929.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Not an MD

[Guest guest]

It's going to be really interesting, Stan.

Not an MD

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM, <stanpfister@...> wrote:

> It's a field day!!! There's so many ironic and sarcastic remarks I could

> make I don't even know where to begin!

>

> Stan

> Seattle, Dark