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Rafael Campos right at home at Puerto Rico Open
Rafael Campos has had plenty of success at the Puerto Rico Open. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
How much does Rafael Campos love Puerto Rico and his home Puerto Rico Open? He never missed a start in the first 11 editions of the tournament at Grand Reserve Country Club in Rio Grande, located roughly 40 minutes from his home outside San Juan, and wanted to extend that streak last February despite a torn muscle in his back so inhibitive that it would not allow him to even swing a club until six months later, in August.
FDA s Janet Woodcock failed to stop the opioid epidemic
Drug manufacturers such as Purdue might have ignited the deadly opioid crisis. However, the FDA was instrumental in allowing the epidemic to play out.
Gerald Posner
Opinion contributor
When the Biden administration tapped Janet Woodcock as the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, it seemed a good pick. Woodcock had spent 23 years as chief of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, a unit the FDA describes as its “consumer watchdog in America’s health care system. The CEDR is tasked with making certain that drugs are “safe and effective,” and “that the health benefits outweigh known risks.”
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators.
A report due out Monday from the Government Accountability Office also shows that the FDA has never pulled a drug off the market due to a lack of required follow-up about its actual benefits even when such information is more than a decade overdue.
The GAO says the FDA should do more to track whether drugs approved based on preliminary results actually have lived up to their promise.