On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:00:11 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
>>> A lot of drugs are slow to come to market in the U.S. because of
>>> the red tape involved in getting them there.
>> It's called adequate testing ace before releasing them on the market.
>> If you want some fool in Europe to use them before adequate testing,
>> feel free. One Swedish friend of my son's came over for a visit a
>> few years ago and had some prescription he ran out of and wanted to
>> see if he could get it here. When I showed it to my doctor, he was
>> incredulous, saying no one prescribes that drug here because it is
>> incredibly dangerous. Red tape to you huh?
>
>That did a lot of good with Vioxx, didn't it?
>
No they didn't and I didn't say it was a perfect system either. The
point is that it's not red tape but designed to prevent the Vioxx
situations which apparently the other poster thinks is unnecessary.
This just proves my point. |