Should the FDA be allowed to regulate e-cigarettes?

The LA Times looks at the current debate over e-cigarettes. This device allows smokers to get their nicotine fix through a small, smokeless electronic cigarette shaped device. The US FDA believes that they should be able to regulate them, as it can prove as a new gateway device to target teenagers who could be turned on to cigarettes by their use.

What do you think about this drug deliver device? While it may help millions stop smoking, it may introduce millions more to a new way of consuming nicotine. There are other things, such as lollypops, that contain nicotine, that are not regulated by the FDA, so why should this smoke-free device face FDA regulation?

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Should the FDA be sharing more about clinical trials?

According to the LA Times, the FDA could be providing more information about approved drugs with doctors and the public. While most of the information doctors use to prescribe medicine and information patients use to learn about the medicine, there's a lot of information that is left out about the drugs. The article points out a few cases in which the FDA doesn't share some of the road bumps that occurred in Phase III clinical trials, such as the drug being ineffective in some of the population.

What do you think? I think that the FDA should share all of the information they possibly can on a drug, and how the drug was accepted by different people's systems. If a drug barley passed the FDA approval, they should be required to share that too, as it could help doctors when prescribing it to individuals. Read the full article here.

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