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How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.
Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how…
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There is a reason that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration exists: the pre-FDA era of medicine was the Wild West of healing.
As someone who already had some understanding of the FDA’s processes, this book expanded on that knowledge. At the same time, I appreciated how this book can be a breathtaking introduction to the FDA with no prior knowledge of it.
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