Also see: FDA Protects Big Pharma While Telling Americans "F*** You!"
"Cancer therapy raises questions about FDA's reviews" by New York Times News Service | October 27, 2008
The MammoSite system is among the thousands of devices the FDA lets onto the market each year after only cursory review and with no clear evidence they help patients.
But they will shake down the herbal vitamins people for kickbacks, bribes, and payoffs!
Doctors are free to use those products as they see fit. And because the doctors are frequently paid more by Medicare as a way to compensate them for the extra time and expense of adopting new procedures, these unproven products can become widely adopted.
Oh, and RIPPING OFF the TAXPAYER to boot, huh?
FDA officials defend the quick-review process as a way to promote innovation.
Translation: You are a GOLD-GIVING GUINEA PIG, Amurkn!!!
Under the fast-track review for most devices, a product's effectiveness is never directly established. Regulators simply determine if the device does what its maker says it does - in MammoSite's case, that it delivers radiation - and whether it poses any undue safety risks.
Translation: The FDA takes its orders from the corporations, readers, and is NOT looking out for the public!! I'll be sure to tune the FDA out going forward.
"Nobody is looking to see whether they help patients," said Diane C. Robertson, of ECRI Institute, a nonprofit group in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., that evaluates devices for insurers. --more--"
Why would they? It is not like they CARE about US!
And you wouldn't have seen it in the paper if insurers hadn't bitched!
No wonder health care costs are through the roof!
