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Would Washington's FDA Fix Cure the Patients or the Drug Industry?
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Oct 20, 2015 - 12:26:17 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The 21st Century Cures Act, legislation that would speed up approval for medications and medical devices, has garnered an unusually broad range of support -- offering a rare example of how major initiatives can get traction even in today's gridlocked Washington, ProPublica's Alec MacGillis writes.

But bipartisan consensus does not necessarily affirm the bill's worth. Far from showing that Washington can still get things done, it shows how a lobby can blow past skeptics if the pot of resources is sweet enough. In this case, billions of dollars in new federal medical research funding for the NIH. 

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More in the full story here: http://www.propublica.org/article/would-washingtons-fda-fix-cure-the-patients-or-the-drug-industry.


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