Amercans less confident in FDA
A lot can change in two years. Two years ago, 56% of people thought the FDA did a good or excellent job regarding drug safety and efficacy. Now, a new poll by the Wall Street Journal Online and Harris Interactive shows that 58% feel the FDA does a poor to fair job on drug safety. It should be noted that this was conducted online from May 12-16 and so I am always cautious with online studies. This is because those online are not always representative of the public at large (although it’s not as bad as it use to be).
WSJ.com - Americans Growing Less Confident In FDA’s Job on Safety, Poll Shows (free)
The whole study is online and worth going through. A more disturbing (but perhaps insightful) number is that 82% of the people interviewed thought the process was guided more by politics than by science. Even more depressing is that only 9% thougth the FDA was influenced to a minor extent or not at all influenced by politics.
If you want to see why that may be the case, read my post on State of the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Looks like the FDA has a lot of reputation building to do with the public to restore confidence.
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May 26th, 2006 at 9:13 am
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