GAO: FDA Doesn’t Investigate Unproven Drugs
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Editor
Via WMTW (10/26/2009):
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators.
A report due out Monday from the Government Accountability Office also shows that the FDA has never pulled a drug off the market due to a lack of required follow-up about its actual benefits — even when such information is more than a decade overdue.