Add to ORKGThe controversy over Laetrile is nearly at an end, the worthlessness of the drug having been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. But the Laetrile experience raised important questions of public policy, some of which remain unresolved and all of which are worthy of examination. Could the Laetrile phenomenon have been prevented? Did the regulatory system perform as intended? Could there be another Laetrile? The drug regulatory system administered under law by the Food and Drug Administration, like any other system carried out by Government in a free society, functions only so long and so far as the public will allow. Survey after survey shows that there is overwhelming support by the American people for the consumer health protection activi...
In evaluating the United States drug regulatory system in 1978, Richard J. Crout posed a choice betw...
This review provides a brief recap of the history of medical quackery and an overview of the various...
The Walter Reed Institute of Army Research developed the antimalarial drug mefloquine then collabora...
Rutherford and similar cases present several interesting questions. The threshold inquiry in the fed...
Controversy over the supposed cancer-curing drug laetrile continues to rage. Now it\u27s up to the c...
Since Ernst T. Krebs Sr. and Jr. claimed to have discovered it as a cure for cancer, laetrile has ha...
We consider here some of the legal and political background behind today's laetrile controversy...
For much of the last half-century, the Food and Drug Administration has earned a reputation as one o...
Regulators must often make difficult decisions based on uncertain or limited information. When it co...
For most of its existence, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acted as the ultimate arbiter ...
Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questi...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules are often forged in crisis. After the 1937 sulfanilamide di...
Through an analysis of the FDA’s approval of the controversial anti-influenza drug Relenza (zanamivi...
New prescription drugs are developed and tested for quality, safety, and efficacy by the pharmaceuti...
For decades, scholars criticized the United States Food and Drug Administration for delaying consume...
In evaluating the United States drug regulatory system in 1978, Richard J. Crout posed a choice betw...
This review provides a brief recap of the history of medical quackery and an overview of the various...
The Walter Reed Institute of Army Research developed the antimalarial drug mefloquine then collabora...
Rutherford and similar cases present several interesting questions. The threshold inquiry in the fed...
Controversy over the supposed cancer-curing drug laetrile continues to rage. Now it\u27s up to the c...
Since Ernst T. Krebs Sr. and Jr. claimed to have discovered it as a cure for cancer, laetrile has ha...
We consider here some of the legal and political background behind today's laetrile controversy...
For much of the last half-century, the Food and Drug Administration has earned a reputation as one o...
Regulators must often make difficult decisions based on uncertain or limited information. When it co...
For most of its existence, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acted as the ultimate arbiter ...
Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questi...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules are often forged in crisis. After the 1937 sulfanilamide di...
Through an analysis of the FDA’s approval of the controversial anti-influenza drug Relenza (zanamivi...
New prescription drugs are developed and tested for quality, safety, and efficacy by the pharmaceuti...
For decades, scholars criticized the United States Food and Drug Administration for delaying consume...
In evaluating the United States drug regulatory system in 1978, Richard J. Crout posed a choice betw...
This review provides a brief recap of the history of medical quackery and an overview of the various...
The Walter Reed Institute of Army Research developed the antimalarial drug mefloquine then collabora...