Dangerous medicine: So what if the speedup at the FDA is putting poisons on pharmacy shelves? Congress doesn't want to know.

THIRTEEN DANGEROUS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS HAVE been withdrawn from the market in the last decade--but not before hundreds of patients died and thousands were injured. Yet no congressional committee has investigated why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved these dubious medicines or why they were not withdrawn right away.

In fact, just this past May, Congress opted instead to renew the arrangement that's a major source of the problem. For 10 years, drugmakers have provided much of the FDA'S own funding by paying "user fees." In exchange, the FDA speeds up its ...

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