Comments on: FDA’s Toll-Free Side-Effect Hotline Is Not In Service http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: On Pharma http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-77731 On Pharma Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:59:37 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-77731 [...] forward. The Agency still lacks a database for monitoring reactions. As Pharmalot and FDA Law blogs recently reported, a consumer 800-number hotline that was to be set up as part of the Best Pharmaceuticals for [...] [...] forward. The Agency still lacks a database for monitoring reactions. As Pharmalot and FDA Law blogs recently reported, a consumer 800-number hotline that was to be set up as part of the Best Pharmaceuticals for [...]

]]> By: Hank http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-22561 Hank Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:44:33 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-22561 Well, I guess all toll free numbers have dangers. And once the number is out there, it must preempt other numbers that would attempt to second-guess it.... But seriously. This is, of course, one more example of the classic disconnect between what Congress passes and what actually happens at FDA. It took the agency almost thirty years to put in place just a version of the Kefavuer-Harris amendments following thalidomide - just enough time for Newt & Co. to try to flush them away. So I'd say, well, 2022 for the toll free number. By that time, of course, we will be able to communicate telepathically with the ODS. But there may be no one there to turn on their cortex. Well, I guess all toll free numbers have dangers. And once the number is out there, it must preempt other numbers that would attempt to second-guess it….

But seriously. This is, of course, one more example of the classic disconnect between what Congress passes and what actually happens at FDA. It took the agency almost thirty years to put in place just a version of the Kefavuer-Harris amendments following thalidomide - just enough time for Newt & Co. to try to flush them away.

So I’d say, well, 2022 for the toll free number. By that time, of course, we will be able to communicate telepathically with the ODS. But there may be no one there to turn on their cortex.

]]> By: Lisa Van S http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-22550 Lisa Van S Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:29:38 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/fda-side-effect-hotline-this-number-is-not-in-service/#comment-22550 Ed, This was a hot topic in September 2004 during the Congressional Hearings on antidepressants in children. Gee,and they found the time to change the Med Guide. Ed,

This was a hot topic in September 2004 during the Congressional Hearings on antidepressants in children.

Gee,and they found the time to change the Med Guide.

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