Yep, when pregnant European women where able to avoid morning sickness by taking Thalidomide, the FDA was keeping it away from American mothers to be.
Oh, to go back to the good old days when Massengill (later part of GlaxoSmithKline) could take Elixir of Sulfanilamide straight to the market without government interference.
Many patients who are terminally ill would like to try new lifesaving medicines that haven’t been approved yet, but usually they’re turned away. Those are the patients most negatively affected by FDA policy.