BMJ  2005;331:861 (15 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7521.861-a

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Another FDA expert resigns over emergency contraception delay

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Frank Davidoff, an internal medicine expert and former editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, resigned last month as consultant to the US Food and Drug Administration. He said that the reason for his decision, which has only just become public, was the FDA's postponement of a decision on over the counter sale of emergency contraception, despite overwhelming support for such a move by the FDA's expert advisory committees and its professional staff.

Susan Wood, the FDA's assistant commissioner for women's health, resigned at the end of August for the same reason ( BMJ 2005;331: 596[Free Full Text]).

In his resignation letter, Dr Davidoff wrote, "I can no longer associate myself with an organisation that is capable of making such an important decision flagrantly on the basis of political influence, rather than the scientific and clinical evidence... I am truly sorry it has come to this, since . . . [Full text of this article]

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