Follicabio

[Dan26]

Lol put the bong down and open the windows. Baldness will be cured way before 20 years, way before 15 years. Technology and medical research advancements is exponential, not linear. Digest that for a second.

its not even 'fully' cured on paper yet....id say 8-15 yrs away

[Arashi]

this makes u a liberatarian… social liberals in the US scream for more regulation and expansive govt control.

I'm not from the US, liberal like used in Dutch would indeed probably better translate to libertarian

[Pentarou]

We live in a 'free enterprise' economy and society as it is, only people would extreme beliefs would argue otherwise. Economic regulations (particularly with regards to pharmaceuticals) benefits the operation of markets in the long run because they, while admittedly flawed, provide a basic level of safety, consumer protection and reliability. A market should not be an anarchy, because then it simply isn't a market.

Anyway, I agree that the FDA and similar jurisdictions need extensive reform, however, as they are out of date in practices and structure, and are clearly holding back medical advances. That does not mean that I see no place for them, and with the recent events in India with Dr Nigam, we should be at least grateful for some level of protection and regulation in the field of medicine here in the western world.

[greatjob!]

We live in a 'free enterprise' economy and society as it is, only people would extreme beliefs would argue otherwise. Economic regulations (particularly with regards to pharmaceuticals) benefits the operation of markets in the long run because they, while admittedly flawed, provide a basic level of safety, consumer protection and reliability. A market should not be an anarchy, because then it simply isn't a market.

Anyway, I agree that the FDA and similar jurisdictions need extensive reform, however, as they are out of date in practices and structure, and are clearly holding back medical advances. That does not mean that I see no place for them, and with the recent events in India with Dr Nigam, we should be at least grateful for some level of protection and regulation in the field of medicine here in the western world.

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[crafter]

i've had a look on clinical trial gov and there's no trials that mention Follica, so if they are doing trials they must be very small and just lab based.

[UK_]

We live in a 'free enterprise' economy and society as it is, only people would extreme beliefs would argue otherwise. Economic regulations (particularly with regards to pharmaceuticals) benefits the operation of markets in the long run because they, while admittedly flawed, provide a basic level of safety, consumer protection and reliability. A market should not be an anarchy, because then it simply isn't a market.

Anyway, I agree that the FDA and similar jurisdictions need extensive reform, however, as they are out of date in practices and structure, and are clearly holding back medical advances. That does not mean that I see no place for them, and with the recent events in India with Dr Nigam, we should be at least grateful for some level of protection and regulation in the field of medicine here in the western world.

I dont agree, take the cases where over-regulation has prevented drugs (that turned out to be completely safe later on) from coming to the market, the damage of such actions is never seen but it's clearly there especially when you consider the thousands of lives that may have been saved had the drug been allowed to enter the market.

Also take into consideration the thousands of lives that are lost because the FDA takes 15 - 20 years (over a quarter of the average lifespan!) to have drugs approved for the market, all propped up (obviously) by a never-ending highly propagandized proposal that institutional regulation is more effective at providing consumer safety than anything else.