The agency in 2005 curtailed use of AstraZeneca's lung cancer drug, Iressa, when trials showed it did not prolong survival.
It is roughly half that rate when trials are contested - and they are the cases that hit the headlines.
"The American TV networks, especially, were generous to the Knox family, paying for airline tickets and meals when trials were in session.
When trials start in a year or so, the first question to be answered is whether wounds closed with HIFU eventually reopen.
The war is being held suspended & the issue of political espionage & sabotage surrounding the Watergate affair cannot be fully joined until after the election (when trials will begin) because of a Presidential decision to maintain silence on the charges.
When trials produce results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug's true effects".
But, at a time when trials are often freighted with great political significance, the case, which resulted in acquittal for all the defendants, served mainly to demonstrate the limits of the criminal-justice system.
When trials reopened in 2006, he suggested it was not a good idea to churn up the problems of the past, although this was seen as a comment on the rise in the number of trials.
Data was pooled to meta-analysis when trials had comparable interventions, subjects and outcomes.
Tapper shrugged off that setback, determined to make the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow when trials took place in February.
Even when trials are successfully completed the FDA is reluctant to give a new drug the green light.
