http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/07/both-my-sons-deserve-to-live-a-mothers-plea-for-quicker-action-from-the-fda/ A healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/07/both-my-sons-deserve-to-live-a-mothers-plea-for-quicker-action-from-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-3195 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:48:37 +0000 http://healthland.time.com/?p=79447#comment-3195 Reblogged this on Up & Down Like the Assyrian Empire! and commented:
It is a genuine dilemma in this age of new-fangled “molecular” drugs, that some seem to work very well during their first human trials, but we have to wait years to get them to the public.
Of course there is massive cost to consider in some cases, but I don’t know about eteplirsen. Public health advocates can have a terrible time deciding if a few people can have an expensive drug vs. a lot of people getting a cheap one. For instance, how many doses of polio vaccine would you trade for one of eteplirsen? These are the realities of government budgets. I wouldn’t like to do it, would you?

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