American Spectator: Admittedly, I knew little about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or, more commonly, Lou Gehrig’s disease) until quite recently when a friend’s friend received the horrible diagnosis. On average, survival is 2-5 years and it’s a terrible way to go. What’s more, that survival time is hardly better than when Lou Gehrig was diagnosed. But the Food and Drug Administration has fixed that by approving a “new” drug that appears to probably be useless — except as an incredible cash cow for its maker.
The approval of the drug, Relyvrio from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, is based on results from one small, mid-stage study in which patients with the debilitating disease appeared to progress more slowly and survive a few months longer. Typically, the FDA requires two large studies or one study with “very persuasive” survival results for approval.
ALS destroys nerve cells needed for basic functions like walking, talking, and swallowing. About 30,000 people in the U.S. currently have the disease.
The approval, based on a single study of 137 patients, followed a very turbulent path, including two negative reviews by the FDA’s internal scientists, who called the company’s results “borderline” and “not persuasive.” A panel of outside advisers backed that negative opinion in March, narrowly voting against the drug.
In an editorial published by the New England Journal of Medicine, two neuroscience experts, Michael Benatar and Michael McDermott, argued that the “lack of convincing supporting evidence” in the study the agency relied upon raised questions about the effectiveness of the drug. more
After Covid BS from our phony FDA I’m straying far away from jabs which turned into stabs. Other countries, a few anyway, do better safety checks. Killing and endangering Americans and their children is not my idea of safe or smart. Veterinaries have better standards and ethic values on how to make a fair profit with a product that has positive results and not a coin toss. I’ll do my own research and reviews and trust to Gods guidance and not the Devils.
The Medical Industrial Complex needs to be fed.
I got conned into taking the two shot Shingrix scam. It was 90% effective until a later review of real world results showed that it is 70%ish effective.
My ass is,
100% Effective
I wish they would get their act together and actually find a cure for ALS
A good friend of mine died from this, and it is a horrific way to go.
All his motor skills, gone.
All his muscles controlling his ability to move and speak, gone.
Eventually, he basically suffocated, as the muscles needed for breathing, died off.
His brain was still sharp and active as ever, but his body held him prisoner.
I know TPTB will never bother to find a cure, though.
There would be no profit in that, and as long as it’s still a disease that few are afflicted with it doesn’t get that much attention.
However, that could all change with the jab.
Who knows what relatively “rare” diseases we will see happening more often.
So more evidence of crap drugs making it through to market? Not surprising. All of our 3-letters are compromised. Four senior scientists resigned from the EPA last year because the approval process has become focused on money, not science.
what has our government (deliberately?) done to physicians and medical researchers
excluding money, what benefits have those in power derived from this?
“lack of convincing supporting evidence”
What, no 10% for the Big Guy?
@paracelsus:
They’ve gained the use of the health care scare as a tool to acquire more power (at the expense of people’s freedom) to further their globalist totalitarian aims.