Drug Safety Reform: Did FDA Buy Time or Trouble?
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
FDA's senior management is worried that it may have created a political Frankenstein when it called for an outside review of the agency's role in drug safety decisions by the Institute of Medicine. The agency asked for the study to take the heat out of Congressional efforts to split up safety and efficacy reviews. The committee has shown interest in the arguments to create new publicly-funded centers for post-market trials.
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