Comments on: Glaxo Hires Former FDA Chief Counsel Dan Troy

By: truthman30

truthman30 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:26:05 +0000

Do the FDA and Pharma nor get very dizzy with all those revolving doors?

By: Henri

Henri — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:25:46 +0000

Let’s not forget Dan’s brother Tevi. He’s now Deputy Secretary of HHS in charge of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

They’re the ones who help pay for all those expensive new drugs as well as the treatments for the side effects they cause (like the cardiac problems due to Vioxx) and the brain damaged kids whose mothers take Lamictal (another Glaxo wonder drug) during pregnancy and the kids who get Stevens Johnson’s Syndrome from it.

Also remember all the recent congressional hearings on how we Medicaid is going to break the federal budget eventually.

By the way has anyone else noticed that the ex-Glaxo VP for pediatric marketing strategy who was hired while Lamictal was under review was then hired to head up FDA’s new Pediatric Division and the ex-Glaxo VP responsible for automating their data analysis (think coding problems) also has been involved in setting up the data analysis systems at FDA.

If you think I’m joking take a look at Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s letter to Von Eschenbach from last November.

By: Farmed Out

Farmed Out — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:57:40 +0000

This just proves you can’t keep a bad man down. There are a couple of other FDA “stars” who could join Glaxo - where they would probably do less damage.

By: LILLI

LILLI — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:50:12 +0000

J. Lane
You are correct, the same should be with a retireded Congressman. In fact depending upon the connections, maybe never.

By: Justice in MI

Justice in MI — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:27 +0000

The door from Congress to industry is pretty much straight through - not even time to revolve. Zillions of examples at all levels, as you know.

The door from industry to government is slightly more narrow. DT had to wait roughly a year between his work for pharma and big tobacco clients and his job as their “regulator.”

By: harpy

harpy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:20:31 +0000

Even if there were some sort of delay window, there would be a way around it. One need only look at the example of Billy Tauzin and PhRMA.

By: BOB FIDDAMAN

BOB FIDDAMAN — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:27:33 +0000

I think it’s a case of ‘You scratch our back and we will scratch yours’

Read into that what you will!

Fid

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:07:22 +0000

It could only get better if GSK would hire Scott Gottlieb and VP of Communications. Then they would surely become the lowest of the low.

By: truthman30

truthman30 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:57:49 +0000

” GSK is sinking into an amoral pit” …

Correction..

GSK has been slithering at the bottom of an amoral pit for quite some time…

By: Phed-Up

Phed-Up — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:54:35 +0000

“Dan shares our vision…”

That about sums it up (and not in a positive way). GSK is sinking into an amoral pit.