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Dear Listmembers, I think it may be time to cut the acchilles tendons of all the people who work for the FDA. While we are sitting here on our collective asses, they are OH SO CONCERNED about getting drugs on the market that will protect women against breast cancer, (which, granted, is a noble cause), but also an anti-impotency drug, anti-baldness drugs, and anti-obesity drugs that end up being recalled due to side effects anyways. What are they thinking? That the only "Sick" people out here in the real world are fat, balding, impotent old men? That's probably what the entire administration is made up of: Fat, balding, impotent, old men. Meanwhile, the people on this list keep posting stories about "Revolutionary" new drugs that are "In developmental stages," and then, we never hear about them again. Case in point: GDNF. I read so many things about this treatment, and was beginning to get excited about it. Then, it got caught in the red tape, and I haven't heard a damned thing for about a year now. You may point your finger at the Udall bill funding and say "More money = better research." My point is that research IS currently producing potential cures for us, i.e. stem cells, GPI-1046, ect...but where are they? I'll tell you where they, they are stuck in phase 1 or possibly phase 2 of clinical trials, and "5 to 7 years" away from reaching the market. Safety first. In the meantime, most of your quality of life is slipping away away from you, and my youth is fading. There's obviously nothing we can do to get the FDA, the bane of my existence, those old, self-perpetuating SOB's, to hurry up and approve some of these novel neurological treatments, so I suppose we'll have to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait some more. Jacob (27, 9)