Will Trump trump the FDA?
Our President-elect recently released his health care policy agenda and it looks like the FDA is a sasaran in terms of reducing oversight. Over at the Washington Post, Carolyn Johnson has a nice article on this development.
One point in the aktivitas in particular has caught people’s attention as potentially the key indicator of what is to come for regulatory oversight of biomedical products:
- “Reform the Food and Drug Administration, to put greater focus on the need of patients for new and innovative medical products”
This one sentence says a great deal in terms of signaling that Trump wants dramatically less oversight or at least that’s how “reform” is being interpreted.
For those of us in the stem cell field this sentence from Trump sounds very reminiscent of language from proponents of reduced regulation and even stem cell clinics, who say they are just in it for the patients but keep keeping racking up profits.
This signal from Trump does not bode well for stem cell and regenerative medicine oversight in the coming years, but we’ll have to stay tuned to see how this develops.
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