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Former FDA Chief Cites 5 Things To Watch On Drug Approvals And Keeping Drugs Safe
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 02/19/2017 - 18:19
- Faster drug approvals, being advocated by Trump and others, don’t necessarily mean less expensive drugs.
- A law passed in December should streamline drug approvals — in a positive way.
- But Califf has concerns about maintaining drug safety standards and ensuring thorough clinical trials.
- Faster, better drugs can’t be approved if the FDA is understaffed, he argued.
- The FDA is using big data to track the safety of drugs already on the market — and it plans to do that a lot more.
Source: KHN
Source URL: http://khn.org/news/former-fda-chief-cites-5-things-to-watch...
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