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senior editor @axios, pedestrian
Oct 19, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Today: FDA panel recommends pulling from the market a drug to prevent preterm births. It was approved through a fast-track process before all the clinical trials were complete, and those trials ended up showing that the drug doesn't work, after all. 2019: The FDA pulled from the market a cancer drug that was approved through the same fast-track process, before clinical trials were completed. The trials ended up showing that the drug didn’t work, after all.