Dallas Hospital Had Device to Detect Ebola but FDA Regulations Barred Use

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Big Government, Ebola, FDA, incompetence, Tyranny

After weeks of blaming Texas Presbyterian Hospital for the delayed treatment of Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, it turns out that the CDC and fellow bureaucrats in the White House were not the only ones in DC who played a role in a calamity that exposed the incompetence of government. Enter the tyrannical FDA.

 

The Fim Array can detect Ebola and other diseases in under an hour using blood or saliva samples.

 

Texas Presbyterian had in their possession The Film Array, a $39,000 device capable of detecting the presence of the Ebola virus but could not use the device because it is not FDA approved.

Instead, the hospital had to wait 48 hours for confirmation of test results for not only Duncan but also Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, the two nurses who had contracted the Ebola virus while treating Duncan who were not wearing protective gear prior to his test results.

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However, military news site Defense One reports that doctors could have simply turned on a toaster-sized device called the Film Array and gotten a diagnosis within minutes.

US military doctors sent to West Africa to combat the disease are already using the Film Array, which has more than 90percent accuracy, according to Defense.

The device costs $39,000 – a pittance by the standards of medical devices in hospitals – and was developed by Utah-based BioFire Diagnostics to test the genetic markers of a slew of gastrointestinal and respiratory viruses. It can use blood or saliva samples and it’s proven adept at quickly detecting Ebola, as well.

Presbyterian Hospital acquired one two years ago, though it has been prohibited from using the device to diagnose patients because the Food and Drug Administration had approved it only for research use – and not for testing Ebola….

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Once again, big government needs to get out of the way. More proof that big government, their ineptitude and burdensome regulations translates into suffering and a pile up in the cemetery. FDA regulations, Obamacare is going to be a hoot. H/t Moonbattery.

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2797144/dallas-hospital-treated-three-ebola-patients-machine-detect-disease-just-minutes-couldn-t-use-wasn-t-fda-approved.html

Fox News Covers Drug Shortage Crisis Due To Aggressive & Excessive Regulation 06152012

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Drug Shortages, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Government corruption, Government coverups, Govt Intervention, Govt Regulation, Manipulation, obama, Obama Administration, Obama Appointees, Obamacare, Prescription Drug Shortages

The above video was recorded on March 6, 2012.

Obama Admin Bails Out GM Salmon Firm, AquaBounty, Despite Evidence That the Firm Could Soon Run Out Of Cash

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FDA, Federal funding, GM, Government funding, Government spending, Obama Administration, USDA

A genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. Photograph: AP

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“The Obama administration awarded a coveted research grant to a financially strapped company working to put genetically modified (GM) salmon on American dinner tables, overlooking disclosures that the firm could run out of cash in early 2012, it has emerged.

Campaigners say the $500,000 grant to AquaBounty amounts to a bail-out for the firm’s main investor, the business tycoon and former economics minister of Georgia, Kakha Bendukidze. They are also comparing it to the Solyndra controversy, which saw a solar company go bankrupt after receiving government loan guarantees.

‘Certainly this does have shades of Solyndra. We have seen this company’s stock plummeting for months and months – years actually – and what does the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) do but give this company money?’, said Colin O’Neil, a policy analyst at the Centre for Food Safety, which opposes GM salmon.

‘This is research that any public university or independent institution could be doing, so why is the USDA funding this interested company to do it?’ he said.

The grant, awarded last month, comes at a critical juncture for AquaBounty.

After $67m and 16 years’ waiting, the Food and Drug Administration could pronounce GM salmon fit for human consumption within weeks, the company’s chief executive, Ronald Stotish, said.

‘Based on what we are seeing we believe we will have an approval by end of this year but we plan for all contingencies,’ he said…”

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Here we go again – More restrictions on our freedoms by the Do-gooders (via Diary of a Mad Conservative)

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FDA, Nanny State, New World Order, Nudging, obama, Obama Administration, Obama doctrine, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Oppression, Power Grab, Progressivism, Richard Blumenthal, socialism, Tyranny

So will Obamabots, the walking dead awaken once Progressives launch a full campaign to separate them from their Newports?

For desired results, simply nudge the sheep along. Photo courtesy PDPhoto.org

Is that it? Will it take a nudge that is so personal and insulting for moonbats to realize that they are supporting an administration hell bent upon eradicating all liberties known to Americans?

Senator Droopy Dick Blumenthal (D-Conn) wants the FDA to ban menthol flavored cigarettes. Why? Because flavored cigarettes are more attractive to kids. I wish these people would just go away and leave me the hell alone!!!!! Every time I turn around it’s one more thing these do-gooders are up to and every thing they do, removes one more of my rights. LaHood wants to put technology in our cars that will deactivate our cell phones when we are in the … Read More

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FDA Set To Cut Off 17,000 Women Annually From Lifesaving Drug, Avastin

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Dictatorship, Dirty bureaucrats, Dirty Politicians, End of life, FDA, healthcare, healthcare rationing, Healthcare Reform, HHS, Nanny State, Nudging, obama, Obama Administration, Obama Appointees, Obama doctrine, Obama lies, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Obamacare, Power Grab, Progressivism, Rationing, Scams, socialism, socialized medicine, Tyranny, universal healthcare, USPSTF

This is extremely unfortunate.  It is unfortunate because it did not have to happen.  Did we not shout from the rooftops a year ago that this would happen?  Did we not warn the country about Obamacare, government run death panels, David Blumenthal, Ezekiel Emanuel,  Sebelius, the USPSTF, comparative effectiveness and breast cancer screening?

GULAG BOUND

“Obama’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is due to take up the case of Avastin, a cancer drug that successfully treats some 17,000 women annually. With a coming December 17 decision, the FDA seems poised to take this drug away from these patients quite despite the fact that their doctors find the drug effective.

The most dangerous period of time in Washington D.C. is that time we call the lame duck session (I call it the zombie congress; dead men walking). It is that time when those elected officials that are about to be ingloriously shipped off home for the last time due to losing election results make a mad scramble to grab for as much as they can get.

In the case of regulatory agencies like the FDA the lame duck session is not treated in exactly the same manner, but it is sure that when congress is about to have its majority party change over with the president’s party on the losing side of the switch, regulatory agencies often try to push through favored policies before the new congress is seated and before that new congress is in a position to put any pressure on those agencies to prevent them from pushing the president’s agenda.

We are currently seeing this lame duck scramble happening in Obama’s regulatory agencies. The FCC was pushing its ruinous Net Neutrality ideas, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been changing labor rules to favor unions, and the FDA is about to eliminate Avastin putting at risk the lives and cancer treatment regimens of thousands of women suffering from metastatic breast cancer.….”

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A year ago, patriots were desperately trying to inform the masses about the downside of Obamacare, including the death panels, the real meaning of Obama’s red and blue pill, its effect on the disabled and the terminally ill.

One of my biggest debates with those in my community who voted for Barack Obama was they were ignorant enough to pin their lives and their hopes on Obamacare.  I effortlessly tried to warn many that they would be the among the first hit and hit the hardest by the negative effects of Obamacare.

Most of those I spoke to could not move past the thought of  FREE HEALTHCARE.  I pointed out often that so-called FREE HEALTHCARE does not mean QUALITY HEALTHCARE.  They did not get it.

Such a decision by the FDA can come to no good; and to think this is only the beginning.

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The Senate Democrats declare a super-majority of senators will be needed to overrule any regulation imposed by the Death Panels

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A DEATH PANEL BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A DEATH PANEL

FOX BIZ, FDA to Inspect Your Garden? Next, Your house? Prepare yourself!

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Dictatorship, Dirty bureaucrats, Dirty Politicians, Farmers, Fascism, FDA, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Shortages, Government corruption, Government coverups, Government spending, Government War on Individual Constitutional Rights, Government Waste, Govt Intervention, Govt Regulation, Govt War on Constitution, Govt's War on America, Marxism, Nanny State, Obama Administration, Obama Appointees, Obama doctrine, Obama lies, Obama's Civilian Service, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Oppression, Power Grab, Progressivism, S. 510, SB510, Small Businesses, socialism, Tyranny

Spirited discussion, love Follow the Money.

Enough of government looking up our rear.  Every time they get involved in some aspect of our lives, they make matters worse.

Furthermore, it’s not about them even giving a damn.  This is about control and profits as if we the people are not smart enough to do the math ourselves.