Brandon Hernández 5:09 a.m., June 19
William Butler Yeats 5:07 a.m., June 19
Garrett Harris 12:36 a.m., June 19
Susan Luzzaro 9:45 p.m., June 18
Dorian Hargrove 4:25 p.m., June 18
La Jolla oncologist pleads guilty to importing unapproved drug
Don-- Not defending this physician (billing as Rituxan sounds like fraud), but I don't think the FDA "bureaucrats" can approve a drug without a request/application from the manufacturer (with lots of data as part of the submission). Yes approval of applications can be very slow, but I'll bet you a beer that there's no application pending for Mabthera. To what extend Mexican & Canadian clinics are due to slow FDA approval of requests v. pharmaceutical companies not wanting or applying for approval in the US is an empirical question.— January 26, 2013 4:41 p.m.