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A recent report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine indicates that the Food and Drug Administration is not doing enough to protect Americans from medication dangers. In some cases, the agency seems to pay more attention to the needs of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
That makes it all the more alarming when we hear that these companies have become corrupt. We talk with the controversial whistleblower making this charge as well as a spokesman for the industry and an objective observer. Have the regulators lost sight of the public good?
Guests: Peter Rost, MD, former vice-president of Pfizer. Author of Whistleblower: Confessions of a Health Care Hit Man. His blog is: http://peterrost.blogspot.com/
Alan Goldhammer, PhD, associate vice-president of regulatory affairs for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Raymond Woosley, MD, PhD, formerly Chairman of Pharmacology at Georgetown University; formerly vice-president for Health Sciences at the University of Arizona; currently president of the Critical Path Institute, a nonprofit organization partnering with FDA and industry to accelerate development of safe medical products, and director of the Arizona Center for Research and Education on Therapeutics.
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