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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.
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--
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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"--

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