Responsiveness to Emergency Access INDs
Ever since I began my career at FDA in 1985 and straight through until today, I have heard the Agency criticized for failing to respond to patients needs regarding to access to new life saving treatments. There are new initiatives being discussed relative to patient’s ability to access new and unapproved treatments for serious, life threatening conditions, but the same arguments of ethics still hang visibly on each side of the issue. Over the weekend, I stumbled across something I had not seen before on the CDER web page; it was a link to the Expanded Access Submission Receipts Report.