[JSteff]

"Unless the FDA fast-tracks it, it will be years before US patients see it..."

The FDA and it's rules are for the drug companies. They have the money for the several 100 million it takes to get their approval.

No small company can afford to get their drugs or alternatives certified by the FDA. Even so yearly we here of FDA "approved" and "certified" drugs being taken off the market because of all those who the kill and maim.

The FDA is a tool of drug companies and basically run by them.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

The FDA is a tool of drug companies and basically run by them.

Too simplistic.

While snake-oil, impure drugs, sloppy research, poor testing may have been the "good intentions" of it's founding, the FDA stands today as an example of bureaucratic excess

Know that it came about as an add-on to an agricultural act in the 1930's?

Like unions, I think that the FDA stifles personal research creativity and prevents the competitive delivery of promising drugs to the consumer.

Drug companies, if public, report to the stockholders. Of what benefit is it to BigPharm to curtail the introduction of new therapeutics?

Bayer aspirin, under todays' FDA, would have never make it to market.

JMO - YMMV