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Accelerated FDA approvals (willingness to grant EUAs), fewer blocks around human trials, even just having the FDA respond faster and more definitively would be
by bpodgursky 5y ago
Accelerated FDA approvals (willingness to grant EUAs), fewer blocks around human trials, even just having the FDA respond faster and more definitively would be a huge improvement over their current opaque processes (waiting weeks to even get a response to an email).
Not to mention... funding.
- gumby 5y agoHave you ever filed anything with the FDA? I have. The process is (understandably) cumbersome, but it is well described. I certainly don’t think communication is a barrier to drug development. There are a lot of things that could be tweaked, but at a gross level it’s pretty consistent. In fact the recent, seemingly politicized, accelerated approval of aducanumab certainty caused a lot of turmoil and appears to have been a mistake. When I was gestating my mother’s colleagues apparently couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t take the miracle drug thalidomide (much less even aspirin). Lucky for me! In general I think the medical side of FDA works reasonably well.