Article: "Doctornauts," a proposal to accelerate medical discovery and rectify the "rape of patients' rights": interview with Stephen L. DeFelice, MD.(Townsend's New York Observer)(Interview)

 
Over and above our national fear and suspicion of clinical research, 
  we have an inexplicable national complacency about medical discovery 
  itself. For example, it is almost a rule to read or hear about such 
  messages in the media as, "an effective new gene therapy has been 
  found but it will take years of testing," or "new drugs fight aging in 
  animals but such developments for humans are years away," or "new 
  drugs for Parkinson's Disease are expected to take years of testing," 
  or "a new protein to treat skin cancer has been tested successfully 
  and may be ready for humans some day." 
Why does it take so long for promising scientific research to be 
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