In Mikkael Sekeres' latest book Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust (The MIT Press, 2022) he provides an inside look at how the FDA regulates drug approvals and the ...

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Sekeres’s book recounts the FDA’s tumultuous early years as well as more current challenges, including showing how its public health safeguards were tested by a modern-day breast cancer drug.

Then, oncologist Mikkael Sekeres joins us to talk about his new book, which is a history of the FDA and an insider’s look at one of the agency’s most contentious drug approval hearings.

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