FDA survey finds Americans don’t really understand drug approvals
Only 25% of Americans understand that a new drug approved by the FDA does not necessarily mean the drug will help most people who use it, according to the results of a survey conducted in 2017 and published last week in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety.
However, FDA’s survey of a nationally representative group of 1,744 US adults did find that more than half understood that the regulator approves prescription drugs when the drug offers benefits that outweigh the risks, although 17.5% thought that an FDA-approved drug will cure the condition for which it’s prescribed.
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