Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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It's the Thalidomide Regs, Not Thalidomide Itself

Of course, few women who might take Anavex 2-73 to treat Alzheimer's will be carrying a child. But some Alzheimer's patients exhibit early, prodromal indications in the forties --- when women do carry babies.

But that's not my contention. It's that the restrictive regulations that prevent some FDA official to simply call up Anavex and tell them to start selling the drug came about because of thalidomide.

Sorry, like it or not (in this case, because of all of what is positively known about our drug, I don't like it), NO WAY AROUND IT.

All the posts (including mine) telling how good and appropriate it would be for prompt FDA approval of Anavex 2-73 are folly. We are screaming into the distant wind. No one will hear us, or if they would (happen to see our postings), they'd just chuckle and click off.

Preliminary approval without trials comporting to new regs is ILLEGAL.

End of story. Laws still control the matter.