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HOLMAN JENKINS: Medical Progress, Please: Your Next Melanoma, Courtesy Of The FDA. ?Of course, no?

By Glenn Reynolds

HOLMAN JENKINS: Medical Progress, Please: Your Next Melanoma, Courtesy Of The FDA. “Of course, nobody at the FDA is ever fired for failing to approve a device. So grating has the agency’s hyper-cautiousness become that, under prodding from university researchers and Congress, it recently rolled out a plan to allow speedier reviews very similar to the agreement struck with Mela Sciences. How this promise is supposed to now have any credibility is itself a bit of a medical mystery.” Make the FDA liable for all the people it’s killed via inaction or delay, and everyone there would be dead.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).