Drugs and the FDA : safety, efficacy, and the public's trust / Mikkael A. Sekeres.
By: Sekeres, Mikkael A [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, ©2022Description: 303 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262047319.Subject(s): United States. Food and Drug Administration | Drug Approval | United States Government Agencies | Bevacizumab -- therapeutic use | Breast Neoplasms -- drug therapy | Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized -- therapeutic use | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HV5825 .S418 2022 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000019264 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This Little Drug Came to Market -- ...And Finally Efficacy -- The Moxie to do Battle -- Trials and Tribulations -- Starve a Tumor, Feed an Industry -- A Viral Scourge -- Silence = Death -- The FDA Makes Its Case -- The Avastin Decision.
"The tension between the drugs patients need & what is necessary to demonstrate safety & efficacy; a story of hope in justifiably desperate patients vs. the time it takes to prove drugs actually work"--