JD Cross
ASIN: B006430YWQ
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 346
Evolve, Part 1: Unintended Consequences opens with the FDA rejecting a genetic therapy that cures breast cancer. There is public outrage against the drug because the drug is seen as being available only to the wealthy and as being capable of genetic warfare against minorities and the poor. The public outcry is stoked by politicians that see the approval or rejection of the drug by the FDA as a mechanism through which to reshape the nation’s health care laws and increase their own political power. The company is compelled to strike a deal with ambitious political figures – Senator Sheila Beal and FDA Commissioner Harriett McGrady – in an attempt to keep the drug moving through the approval process. Commissioner McGrady, guided by Senator Beal, takes an increasingly activist role in the daily operations of the company. The drug’s creators, Ethan and Myrada Fisher, are marginalized by ...