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Thursday, June 13th, 2019

Study finds FDA dermatology advisors receive payments following drug approvals

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Source:     University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Publication Date:     10-Jun-2019
 Link: Study finds FDA dermatology advisors receive payments following drug approvals
Stephan:   The corruption of the American illness profit system, particularly the pharmaceutical aspect, is simply mind-boggling. Consider what this report says, "Physician advisors serve as external experts in determining whether a new medical therapy is fit for the U.S. market. Of the advisors analyzed, 54 percent received at least one payment from pharmaceutical companies. Twenty-seven percent accepted more than $1,000, 15 percent accepted more than $50,000 and nine percent took more than a $100,000. The advisors received a mean of more than $47,000."

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A team of researchers led by a member of the University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty at the Anschutz Medical Campus examined post-advisory financial relationships between U.S. physicians who advised FDA committees during dermatological drug approval processes. Critics of these industry-physician relationships claim these types of payments could incentivize advisors to alter their voting habits.

The findings are published in a research letter in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

“It’s known from previous studies that financial payments to FDA advisors can take place after a drug is approved but this is the first time we’ve researched and seen that this trend spans to the dermatology field,” said Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology and public health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dellavalle adds, “It’s hard to control post-advisory financial relationships since it’s not on the record going into the committee and top doctors can be paid as ongoing academic advisors for a variety of reasons. Regardless, financial conflicts of interest in medical research are […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 5:11 pm

    This may be a little off subject but the situation for senior citizens getting their prescriptions filled is getting to be an almost impossible task. For medications which we used to get easily by calling our doctor’s office and they would then phone them in to the pharmacy everything has changed for a lot of prescriptions. Now we have to go pick up a prescription at the doctor’s office every month and never get the refills which we used to get but do not get now. Now we have to go to the doctor’s office every month to get prescriptions we have been taking for years with refills. It is insane, the amount of time and gas expenditure we now have to go through. I guess it is part of the insane “war on drugs” which is really a war on disabled people, and is especially bad for us older folks who do not have the extra time or money just to get a prescription which we used to have no trouble getting easily. My wife and I are sick of it and if we could, we would move to another, better country. The USA has become an insanely run country and we hate being stuck living here.