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Dr. Ruwart has probably written more about the FDA than on any single topic. Of course, as a research scientist in pharmaceuticals for most of her adult life, she has enormous first hand experience of the effects of the FDA on the development of new cures (short answer: it either delays or destroys them). She was nominated by Ron Paul in 2002 to be FDA Commissioner, and her program to reform it was, of course, essentially to end all of the coercive elements and allow the voluntary sector of society provide the non-coercive ones. She addressed medical research in a free society in her Ask Dr Ruwart column at:

http://www.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?s_keyword=FDA&id=83

She addressed the Thalidomide tragedy that led to the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments (the source of most of the coercive powers of the FDA) at:

http://www.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?s_keyword=FDA&id=173

She also devotes an entire chapter of Healing Our World to the FDA. While I strongly recommend purchase of the 2003 edition of the book, which has more up-to-date information and research to support the case for a separation of medication and state: an older version is online, and Chapter 6: Protecting Ourselves To Death is available at:

http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap6.html

The online version doesn't contain the results of her more recent study demonstrating quite convincingly that the FDA regulations killed more than 4.7 million people between 1963 and 1999, and at most might have saved fewer than 100,000.

Finally, although I don't expect she will make it a centerpiece of her campaign, because she has always respected the coalition status of the LP, and the party doesn't yet have an official position on patents, her writings on the totally non-political Advocates for Self-Government web site makes clear that she doesn't believe drug patents would exist in a free society:

http://www.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?s_keyword=FDA&id=86

I would strongly urge people who want more information on her positions on health care to go to www.askdrruwart.com (there is a search box at the bottom of the page) and browse the many answers on the topic that she has provided over the years.