Welcome to Molecular Ideas, and thanks for sharing your time with us today! Today, we have a song parody as a follow-up to our recent post on the FDA's role as a partner in the drug development process - and why it's so important that they get it right. You can check it out here.
Earlier this week, we talked about how the FDA safeguards the public's interests for safe and efficacious medication, and what happens when it goes right, wrong, or sideways.
With all that in mind, it's time for our song parody of Meat Loaf's famous rock ballad, I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That), re-written to reflect the FDA's unique position in the drug development and approval process. And if I took the words right out of your mouth...it must have been because you knew where this post was going.
(You can listen to the song and check out the full (annotated) lyrics on Genius)
Lyrics
And we'd approve almost any drug,
It's our job to watch patient's backs
We'd approve almost any drug,
If the data shows it's safe with impact
But we'll never let it pass without discussion & debate
Oh no, no way
We'd approve almost any drug
But we won't approve that
No we won't approve that
And some data evaluates easy
And some data evaluates hard
And some data don't make sense at all
And these are the drugs that never pass
But some diseases have no cure
And some diseases have a bunch
Some drugs need innovation
Something better to bring a new day in
And maybe they're crazy
Some of the questions we ask, it's true
If your drug can save lives
And nothing else can save them now but you
(then) as long as the pipelines are churning
And the investor's dollars are burning
And we get closer to patient dreams coming true
You better believe it
That we'd approve almost any drug
And monitor phase IV data snap(shot)s
And we'd approve almost any drug
You can leave clinical trials in the past
But we'd never forgive ourselves if don't debate
All night
Oh, we'd approve almost any drug
Oh, we'd approve almost any drug
Oh, we'd approve almost any drug
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
And sometimes we work on infectious disease
And sometimes we work on onco
Sometimes we validate data in our labs to show
If you may accidentally lose feeling
Or even go lose control
Of your mind or bowels, that's something patients should know
It might seem lonely
But that's not what you should see
There's thousands of us
Keeping you safe for government fees
As long as the pipelines are churning
And the investor's dollars are burning
And we get closer to patient dreams coming true
You better believe it
That we'd approve almost any drug
With the right data, and that's a fact
That we'd approve almost any drug
And they'll never be debate 'bout that
And we know clinical trials take 10 years
so long
Oh, we'd approve almost any drug
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
We'd approve almost any drug
Anything you've been dreaming of
But we won't approve that
And you should never stop dreaming of how to go save patient lives
No way
We'd approve almost any drug
We'd approve almost any drug
We'd approve almost any drug
But we won't approve that
So will you raise your capital?
Investors, don't mark down
We're gonna get this out of the lab right now.
Will you help us get ready to go?
(We can do that! Yeah, we can do that!)
Will you go through trials
And stay up all night
To ensure enrollment is fair and just right?
Will you audit accessible sites?
(We can do that! Yeah, we can do that!)
Will you figure the dosage across different plans?
Do you know what this drug does and what it can't?
Can you use it in the clinic or home?
(Together, we'll tell you that! Yeah, we'll tell you that!)
Will you respond promptly to every question we got?
Yes, and you'll do the same, or tensions will get hot (hot!)
And we'll move together into the unknown
(Now can do that! Oh yeah, we can do that!)
After a while the panel debates,
They'll decide whether this drug is bad or it's great
And they'll issue a formal response
And what response is that?
And what response is that?
We know the category, and what drugs around,
We know that some drugs go on
And others fall down
And now we need you to go back to clinical trial rounds
Because we can't yet approve that.
No we can't yet approve that.
We'd approve almost any drug
Yeah, we'd approve almost any drug
But we won't yet approve that
No, we won't yet approve that.
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