Late last week, the FDA formally issued crazy new guidelines designed to speed the testing of experimental and, potentially, very health-harming drugs on unsuspecting volunteers. New rules will allow drugmakers to test "minute doses" of experimental drugs to determine if full-blown clinical tests are warranted.
This "micro-dosing" of small numbers of patients in a clinical environment is intended to replace some early experimentation currently done on animals, and is expected to be more accurate. Experts claim the amount -- about 1 percent of the final dose -- would allow them to determine if the drug really gets to the area of the body it's intended and how a patient tolerates it.
The FDA's insane reasoning for justifying the move: Ninety percent of all experimental drugs fail in human studies. Considering the FDA's fast-track drug approvals endanger your health anyway, why does the agency need to do further experiments on humans?
Folks, it's merely standard operating procedure for the drug-addicted paradigm that passes for conventional medicine with help from the FDA. That's why I remain so focused on my vision to transform the state of healthcare into a gentler, safer one focused on treating and preventing the underlying causes of disease.
Los Angeles Times January 12, 2006 Registration Required