RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 John Adriani Banned From FDA by Pharmaceutical Industry: An Historical Vignette and Cartoon
JF Ochsner Journal
JO Ochsner J
FD O. P. Jindal Global University
SP 10
OP 11
VO 11
IS 1
A1 Broussard, David
A1 Yajnik, Amit
YR 2011
UL http://www.ochsnerjournal.org/content/11/1/10.abstract
AB In 1969, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Herbert Ley offered New Orleans anesthesiologist John Adriani, MD, the role of director of the Bureau of Medicine. Dr Adriani accepted the offer, but it was quickly withdrawn, in part based on pressure from the pharmaceutical industry. It opposed Dr Adriani's appointment because of his work promoting generic drugs. This episode was the subject of a 1969 cartoon in the Hartford Times by Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Ed Valtman.