Posted by Wondering?, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood, on Mar 19, 2013 at 8:33 pm

The Drug companies say that it sometimes takes 10 years to get a drug through development, testing, trials and approval. It would be interesting to know how long this drug took, from inception to FDA approvals. Would also be interesting to know what the FDA will change any of its testing methodologies to hopefully detect this sort of possible outcome for drugs in their approval pipeline.

Posted by Sieur de L'Enfer, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 7:49 am

Doesn't the FDA bear some resposibility for what happened to users of this drug?

Posted by the upper end - non sieur, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 9:18 am

The FDA is the organization that actually tracked and compiled the data that caused the drug to be pulled off the market (not Affymax.)

Why does the FDA bear some "resposibility"?

Posted by local gurl, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Sometimes these things don't show up in the test population. It's all about statistics.

Posted by whose fault, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 2:46 pm

Isn't the FDA partly responsible, since they cleared the drug for use?

Posted by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 4:08 pm

How beneficial was this drug to the other 99.8% of the patients?

Posted by Steve C, a resident of Menlo Park, on Mar 21, 2013 at 7:44 am

My thoughts go to the people who lost their incomes. Around these parts, that's the kiss of death.