Philip Morris
If A Murderer Kills You, It's Homicide If A Drunk Driver Kills You, It's Manslaughter If the FDA Kills You, It's Just Being Cautious
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MURDERER
IF A
KILLS YOU , IT' S HOMICIDE.
IF A
DRUNK DRIVER
KILLS YOU, IT' S MANSLAUGHTER.
IF THE
IT'S JUST BEING
Horror stories abound. Not just from accidents and crime-
but from the paralyzed hallways of our own federal govern-
ment's bureaucratic and apparently unaccountable Food and
Drug Administration.
Right now, delays on approving lifesaving drugs,
treatments, and devices are obstructing Americans from get-
ting the best available medical treatment-forcing many to
search instead for newer drugs and technologies abroad. For
the majority who can't afford worldwide travel, the delays
mean needless deaths. Some recent examples:
3,500 kidney cancer patients died during the 3'/~ years
it took the FDA to approve the drug Interleukin 2. It had
already been approved in nine European countries.
14,000 heart-attack victims so far have died who could
have been saved by the cardio-pump during the two years
the FDA has delayed approval.
During the seven years it took to approve tacrine,
thousands of Alzheimer's patients gradually lost their mem-
ories. Nobody knows how many died.
The American Heart Association estimates that at
KILLS YOU,
least 1,000 lives were lost during the time an approved heart
defibrillator was delayed. Why was it delayed? The FDA
prohibited shipments because of paperwork problems.
In spite of criticism in the j4all Street Journal and
ABC's ?0/?0, and in the face of 46,000 deaths per year from
breast cancer, the FDA has obstructed approval-for nine
,years--of the Sensor Pad, a device that magnifies the sensa-
tion of lumps in women's breasts. In Canada, the product
was approved in less than 60 days.
The lives of more than 150,000 heart attack victims
may have been saved had the FDA not delayed approval of
the emergency blood-clotting drug TPA by a year and a half.
We all want safe and carefully tested medicines
and treatments. But let's have them in our lifetime... not
long after we've died in agony from a disease other na-
tions have controlled for years.
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THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA IS THE FDA
As seen in The Wall Street Journal and National Journal,
