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Building a 21st Century FDA

Building a 21st Century FDA

By Sam Kazman [1]
April 24, 2012
Originally published in Reason Magazine [2]

From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason:

Delaying access to new drugs kills people. As Competitive Enterprise Institute general counsel Sam Kazman has observed [3] [PDF], “Whenever FDA announces its approval of a major new drug or device, the question that needs to be asked is: If this drug will start saving lives tomorrow, then how many people died yesterday waiting for the agency to act?” Roy’s proposal is a good first step toward moving the drug approval process into the 21st century.

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[1] http://cei.org/expert/sam-kazman
[2] http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/24/getting-the-fda-into-the-21st-century
[3] http://www.jpands.org/vol15no4/kazman.pdf