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Every study I'm aware of that's looked into this issue says that the FDA is too conservative and we'd be better off using the looser systems found in other developed countries. Though it's gotten a lot better over the last few decades, we probably aren't going to get a repeat of the early beta blocker situation where the FDA saved 100s of people from liver failure from early drugs at the cost of 100,000s of excess deaths due to heart failure.


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