FDA-Chef warnt davor, dass die USA bei der frühen Arzneimittelentwicklung gegenüber China an Boden verlieren, und fordert schnellere Zulassungen für Studien
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/18/fda-chief-warns-us-is-losing-ground-to-china-in-early-drug-trials.html
47 Kommentare
Nothing bad ever happens when you take shortcuts to get pharmaceuticals to market. Nothing at all. Carry on.
We’re not losing because our testing is slow. We’re losing because we don’t properly fund sciences and half our stupid country doesn’t believe in it. They believe their imaginary friend from their 2000 year old bedtime story will save them.
Let the new mRNA vaccines, including cancer treatments, move forward. They’re ready.
Guts American science by mangling the NIH and NSF. Then is surprised the US is falling behind in science.
Can’t afford them anyway.
Hi I work in pharma research. US has the easiest drug trial application in the planet and is the fastest. We have defacto 0 drug law compared to the rest of the world.
It is the lack of pure research funding and that US work is too dam expensive. Why pay US labor cost to work in a lab vs have china do it and buy the rights to it.
The FDA chief warning about losing ground to China while simultaneously denying mRNA vaccine approvals is laughable.
Let’s use those god damn filters in sunscreen as an example. The FDA is still only allowing the filters they approved from like 80 years ago in today’s world…. Not only do they leave a white cast and/ or oily residue, they also sting my eyes badly even when I don’t sweat. 10x worse if I do get sweaty! As an American, I have to buy Asian sunscreen FOR WHICH the fucking FDA blocked the sale of them in the US with the excuse of “Sunscreens are medical devices and these filters aren’t being reviewed and approved, therefore no sunscreens from Asia until we approve it in the next 1000 years!!“
Next we will be getting new Tuskegee Studies.
A little Ivermectin is all you need. It’s a wonder drug.
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/feb/16/attorney-general-ken-paxton-backs-ivermectin/
To compete with China, you fund research instead of cutting it like this administration has done.
What could possibly go wrong defunding research, and then fast tracking the trials and approval process?!
I cant afford any prescruptuin drugs as an american anyway. Let it burn.
Wait a second doesn’t the United States not trust existing long proven drugs like Tylenol and measles vaccine? And now they want to speed up drug approvals? Is this messed up or just me?
The US isn’t losing ground. The US stopped, turned around, and are now sprinting in the wrong direction.
Maybe don’t defund research.
Brain drain, baby
Wait isn’t one of the main detractions his boss’s cult likes to use is the tye covid vaccine was rushed to market too fast?
Then why are you gutting mRNA therapy research?
This is the most politically motivated FDA in history that wants to attack universities and basic research, attack private biotech companies over COVID bullshit, then at the same time want us to lead the world in both science and biotechnology?!
These people are unqualified and full of shit. They are political appointments and are not working for their agency, they are working for their political interests.
Has NOTHING to do with idiots of this administration and the mass exodus of top researchers and experts due to mass defunding….
What’s the end result of an arms race in everything? It seems like it’s just a collosal waste of energy to make some rich pricks even richer.
Maybe they shouldn’t have salted the earth with US research funding.
RFK jr literally just suspended flu vaccine approvals for Moderna for mRNA shots after saying publically he used to snort cocaine off a toilet seat so like, idk what yall want anymore.
Magic rfk eightball says definitely not
Well, when you have a traitor, brain addeled, psychopath running the CDC of course we are losing ground.
The same week Kennedy was talking about snorting coke off a toilet seat, his agency refused to review MNRA vaccines.
Fuck Don Pedo, Kennnedy and Republicans
We are losing ground to China in every field
Sew mistrust about medical treatments, reap the fallout.
Probably shouldn’t be cancelling grant programs kneecapping phd programs and the pipeline of scientists!
Bring back pill mills you cowards! At least let us all be numb for this shitshow
cough…..“pulls out the Kennedy card“.
Maybe get rid of that stunned son of a bitch to start with.
But according to RFK Jr. we don’t need drugs, road kill and raw milk are the path to health and righteousness.
Remember how mad rapeublicans got when that made that Covid vaccine quickly because the entire world was working on it? Well the entire world isn’t working on your fucking shitty weight loss drugs or whatever else.
We’re losing ground because we’re fucking stupid
Look at peptides. Americans are spending millions on illicit drugs from China with no quality control or safety checks, meanwhile the FDA is weaponized against American compounding pharmacies. We’re like Germany buying Russian oil to finance a war in Ukraine.
America is losing ground to China in just about everything rn tbh
Quick! Fire more people from HHS and the CDC! And put some more clowns with no healthcare or research background into positions of power!
Wasn’t that the whole reason these morons didn’t like the vaccine? „It was rushed“ despite operation warp speed starting under trump’s first presidency
Why, so we can patent them and make people go bankrupt to address their most basic needs so a CEO can get a bigger yacht? Why am I supposed to hate China again?
*monkey’s paw curls*
Years ago those Chinese scientists would have been trying to immigrate to the freedom of the US, but Trump says he doesn’t want them. Doesn’t want science. Won’t fund schools that are doing science. Not to mention he’s turning the US into a backwards cesspool of ancient technology that lags behind the tech of other nations – not because we can’t do it, but because Trump doesn’t want us to do it.
Blaming ethical processes to ensure safety while removing funding, causing scientists to take jobs abroad, and reducing jobs that would lead to innovation in the states is a choice.
…and like basically everything else because the admins are idiots
The USA is losing ground in everything because it has a president that wants to use coal, put an ignorant conspiracy theorist in charge of heath and believes that wind turbines are wind mills (ugly mills)
The USA is losing ground in everything because it has a president that wants to use coal, put an ignorant conspiracy theorist in charge of heath and believes that wind turbines are wind mills (ugly mills)
Rufkm? They let go so many people and now they’re complaining about time? I can’t stand this dimension.
Maybe instead we should invest in education and scientific development
Learn mandarin, guys.
Your administration is anti-science and you’re wondering why you’re losing in science?