Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc fka ARIA

[grandma_of_jbraika]

"To boost their claim, the FDA listed in a press release the events of some rather unfortunate side effects to illustrate their point, ignoring that the very ill patients had other conditions besides CML, notably diabetes, that could very well have been the leading cause of those SAEs. In some cases, the FDA points out at least two patients in their 20's who experienced FDA-defined SAE's, ignoring to state in their press release these patients were in the end state, or blast phase of the disease, with no alternative treatment than Iclusig. The drug saved one, the other sadly did not respond to treatment. Few of these very ill patients actually die from a SAE while the hundreds and hundreds of patients are alive today because of Iclusig.

Immediately after asking (forcing) Ariad to stop selling the drug, the FDA told existing patients that they could apply through the FDA so that Ariad would provide the drug for free. And that is on-going. Nothing has changed, except that this upstart biotech, Ariad, is slowing going out of business by keeping these desperate patients, who were paying for the drug, alive with free drug.", 2damoon1 wrote.

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