Newspapers reported that patients receiving the drug through a new expanded access program had a much higher death rate than patients enrolled in conventional clinical trials of the drug. In one case, a Harvard faculty member was quoted as saying that death rates in the expanded access program were ''a disgrace, an absolute disgrace.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration FDA , advocates for people with AIDS, and the drug's sponsor, Bristol-Myers Squibb, attributed most or even all of the disparity in death rates to the fact that patients enrolled in the expanded access program were sicker to begin with than those in the clinical trials.
The ddI controversy exposed sharp differences of opinion within the medical community about the appropriateness of making investigational drugs—drugs not yet approved for marketing by the FDA—available for therapeutic purposes. In August , the Public Health Service PHS convened a committee to formalize procedures for making promising investigational agents available to people with AIDS and other HIV-related disorders who could not participate in controlled clinical trials and who had no therapeutic alternatives.
The committee's recommendations were still in draft form seven months later, but many people regarded the ddI trial as the prototype of the new "parallel track system. The controversy continues today. Opponents of the parallel track worry that it will disrupt efforts to assess the safety and efficacy of drug candidates through conventional clinical trials.
They question the value of information gathered through the parallel track system and express concern about exposing large numbers of people to relatively unknown agents. Advocates of parallel track acknowledge that increasing access to investigational drugs without definitive evidence of either safety or efficacy carries serious potential risks, but they believe that many desperately ill patients are willing to assume such risks.
After all, they say, investigational drugs are the only hope for thousands of AIDS patients who either cannot tolerate or fail to respond to zidovudine. One fact often ignored by both sides is that access to investigational drugs for therapeutic purposes is not new in this country. In fact, it is as old as the history of drug regulation itself.
Two features that make the current situation somewhat different from the past are 1 the desire to establish a written policy and 2 the large number of people who could receive a single investigational drug in a short period of time.
A brief review of earlier approaches to expanded access and a summary of the drug approval process prior to the start of the AIDS epidemic help place the debate over the parallel track mechanism in perspective.
Modern drug regulation in the United States began in with enactment of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, prompted by the elixir sulfanilamide tragedy of November more than people died when a drug containing the poisonous solvent diethylene glycol was marketed without animal tests.
The new act contained one brief section, labeled i , in which Congress authorized the FDA to issue rules governing investigational use of drug candidates.
The FDA regulations that resulted from this authorization contained four requirements: 1 an experimental drug had to be labeled "for investigational use only"; 2 the drug could be delivered only to experts and could be used by them solely for investigational purposes; 3 each expert had to have adequate facilities for investigation; and 4 the sponsor had to have a signed statement from the investigator indicating that the drug would be used solely for investigational purposes until it had been fully licensed.
The regulations did not describe "expert" qualifications or specify the nature of "adequate facilities. Questions of expanded access did not arise because there were no substantive barriers to obtaining investigational drugs for therapeutic purposes. Public attention did not focus again on the drug regulatory apparatus until July , when a story in the Washington Post disclosed links between the experimental drug thalidomide and severe birth defects.
Three months later, the U. Congress unanimously passed the first major drug amendments. Surprisingly, the amendments did not radically alter section i. They authorized regulations for investigational new drugs but did not require the submission of study plans, record keeping, or statements from investigators. The only mandatory provision was that investigators had to obtain informed consent from every subject. The regulations issued by the FDA in response to the thalidomide tragedy and the new statute provided the first formal structure for the drug development process.
Before beginning clinical trials, all sponsors would have to submit an investigational new drug application, or IND. The IND would describe the chemical structure of the new compound and its probable mode of action in the body, identify investigators, describe the results of laboratory and animal tests, and outline specific elements of the study protocol.
The FDA press release that accompanied the final regulations in January addressed for the first time the issue of access to investigational drugs for therapeutic purposes. In an analysis of objections that had been raised to the regulations in draft form, the press release noted, "The proposed regulations were said to deny extremely important new drugs not yet approved for general distribution to patients who might need them urgently as a lifesaving measure.
The FDA's response set the tone for the next two decades. The press release explained, "The increased flexibility in the regulations will allow the sponsor of a new drug investigation to add new investigators after the program is started. There is no bar in the regulations to giving the necessary instructions to, and obtaining the necessary commitments from, a new investigator by telephone in case this is needed to save a life. From until the beginning of the s, access to investigational drugs was an informal process governed primarily by telephone.
The FDA had no written policies. If a physician determined that a severely ill patient had no recourse other than an experimental drug, the physician called the FDA and requested access to that drug. Medical officers in the agency evaluated each situation separately and either approved or denied the request. The criteria were simple. Approval required four basic elements: a manufacturer willing to supply the drug, a physician willing to prescribe it, a patient willing to give informed consent, and some basis for believing that the treatment was not an outright fraud or poison.
The flexibility of this system enabled many very sick patients to receive drugs with a minimum of delay and paperwork. But there were also drawbacks to the informal approach. First, the system only worked for patients whose physicians knew what drugs were under investigation; patients treated by physicians outside the mainstream of academic medicine were less likely to have access to experimental therapies.
Second, some ineffective or even toxic drugs, such as DMSO dimethyl sulfoxide , attained widespread distribution among patients whose original illnesses did not justify extreme measures. Finally, the lack of written policies spawned a confusing array of terms and concepts that still cloud discussions and interfere with efforts to develop a more uniform approach to the access problem. The orphan drug concept actually predated the amendments and remains in use today.
It refers to drugs developed to treat rare or unusual conditions. The "permanent" orphan drug IND was conceived to provide access to drugs that would never meet licensure requirements because there were simply too few patients to collect adequate data. In , Congress passed the Orphan Drug Act to provide certain tax and other financial incentives to the sponsors of therapies for rare diseases. The individual investigator IND enabled physicians to obtain experimental drugs for therapeutic purposes when it was not possible to enroll their patients in existing clinical trials.
By the end of the s, this concept had been incorporated into the compassionate use IND, which also covered the provision of experimental drugs to patients during FDA review of a new drug application, or NDA the document submitted by a sponsor after the completion of clinical trials to request permission for marketing. Two more expanded access concepts arose during the s. Sponsors of controlled trials were permitted to develop concurrent open-label safety studies also called open enrollment or open protocol.
Through these studies, which continue today, thousands of patients received access to experimental drugs at various stages of investigation. Although the FDA requires sponsors of these studies to collect safety data, many observers of FDA policy believe that the primary purpose of the open-label studies is to provide therapy to patients.
It is important to remember that all of these concepts evolved in the absence of any written policy. Over the years, several groups in Congress and the FDA attempted to develop a more rational approach to the use of investigational drugs for therapeutic purposes, but changes in administration and other political events intervened.
Meanwhile, the drug development and approval process itself grew increasingly formal. By , it took an average of 10 years for a new drug to progress from the laboratory to the medicine chest. With some important exceptions, the basic framework of the drug evaluation process today is similar to that of 10 years ago although a study by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association suggests that the average time to FDA approval now may be closer to 12 years.
If preclinical investigations indicate that a drug has biological activity against a targeted disease and does not cause unacceptable damage to healthy tissues, the drug sponsor requests permission from the FDA to begin the first of three phases of clinical trials—that is, the sponsor files an IND. Click Start , click Run , type cmd , and then click OK.
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