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Long before Sept. 11 ushered in a new era of respect for government, Washington was poised to enjoy an unlikely job boom. Almost half the Federal Government's 1.8 million workers will be eligible to retire within five years. From the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Park Service to the Commerce, Energy and State departments, agencies are bracing for a brain drain, especially at the managerial level. And these aren't your classic paper-pushing jobs--although many of those, as at the busy Social Security Administration, are also going begging...
Woolhandler called on the FDA to be much more careful when approving new drugs...
Woolhandler said that in a few cases, the FDA has even approved new drugs although some pre-marketing studies indicate potential complications with the drugs, dismissing the evidence as coincidence...
Sidney Wolfe, co-author of the study and director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, alleged that “the FDA is at an all time low as far as the drug approval process...
Wolfe also suggested that the FDA has financial incentives to approve new drugs—the drug industry’s profits are directly funneled to the FDA as a result of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992, he said. Wolfe added that the act will be up for reauthorization soon...