Re: More statin adverse effects to become obvious?

From: Paul E. Lehmann (plehmann_at_fred.net)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:42:56 -0500

Sharon Hope wrote:

.............
>
> They're making progress. The NIH investigators, as of yesterday, can no
> longer take 400% over their NIH salary in cash and stock options from the
> company whose drug they are evaluating for FDA approval.
>
> What's next? Maybe the FDA might start enforcing safety of approved
> drugs......
>

When I was working for the National Weather Service, a friend of mine (a
computer programmer) left the Weather Service and took a job (as computer
programmer) with the FDA. He was forced to get rid of all his pharma
stocks that he owned.

This is really amazing since then (about 5 years ago) - and probably even
now, scientists could / can work for the FDA, leave the government and go
to work for the Pharma industry and return to work for the FDA. It is a
revolving door in which scientist can leave the government, work on drugs
in the private sector and then come back to the FDA and fast track the very
drugs their company was working on. They can then go back to the private
sector and continue to repeat this cycle indefinitely. They enforce
conflict of interest policies for their technical people but not the top
"Professionals".

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