1370: Mary Ruwart – Slow Drug Approval in America

	By the mid-1980s, 72% of new drugs approved by the FDA had already been available elsewhere for an average of 5.5 years. One new drug that came late to the American market was Propranolol, the first beta-blocker to be used extensively to treat angina and hypertension. Approximately 30,000 Americans died prematurely because they couldn’t get this lifesaving drug and because their doctors did not prescribe it. Advertising Propranolol as a treatment was illegal. —Mary RuwartDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 256KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 130KB
	By the mid-1980s, 72% of new drugs approved by the FDA had already been available elsewhere for an average of 5.5 years. One new drug that came late to the American market was Propranolol, the first beta-blocker to be used extensively to treat angina and hypertension. Approximately 30,000 Americans died prematurely because they couldn’t get this lifesaving drug and because their doctors did not prescribe it. Advertising Propranolol as a treatment was illegal. —Mary RuwartDownload Print Quality (7680×7680) 357KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 174KB

By the mid-1980s, 72% of new drugs approved by the FDA had already been available elsewhere for an average of 5.5 years. One new drug that came late to the American market was Propranolol, the first beta-blocker to be used extensively to treat angina and hypertension. Approximately 30,000 Americans died prematurely because they couldn’t get this lifesaving drug and because their doctors did not prescribe it. Advertising Propranolol as a treatment was illegal. —Mary Ruwart

1369: Life Extension Magazine – 430,000 Deaths

After 12 long years of battling the FDA, and after the needless, premature deaths of at least 430,000 Americans, Ribavirin, which can treat severe lung infections, was finally approved in June 1998. —Life Extension MagazineDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 190KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 93KB
After 12 long years of battling the FDA, and after the needless, premature deaths of at least 430,000 Americans, Ribavirin, which can treat severe lung infections, was finally approved in June 1998. —Life Extension MagazineDownload Print Quality (7680×7680) 249KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 114KB

After 12 long years of battling the FDA, and after the needless, premature deaths of at least 430,000 Americans, Ribavirin, which can treat severe lung infections, was finally approved in June 1998. —Life Extension Magazine

1368: William Warded – Excessive Regulations in Drug Development

Drug development, Drugs, FDA, Government, Health, History, Innovation, Law, RegulationsDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 190KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 99KB
	If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's backshelf because of excessively stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development combined. —William WardedDownload Print Quality (7680×7680) 264KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 127KB

If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company’s backshelf because of excessively stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development combined. —William Warded