Entries from September 1997
Personal responsibility and the FDA
A couple interesting medicine-related stories on the news this evening.
One concerned hearings in Congress about FDA regulation of experimental treatments for grave diseases, like cancer. The gist of it was that people wanted to rein in the FDA, so that more experimental drugs would be available.
Only a couple days before, the notorious diet treatment fen-phen [...]
How do we fund medical research? How should we?
A news story today concerned prostate cancer, and especially, the amount of federal funding that goes to prostate cancer research. Evidently, prostate cancer gets about $80 million in research funding each year, and kills about 41,000 men. Breast cancer gets $550 million in annual funding, and kills about 45,000. AIDS gets $1.6 billion in funding, [...]
