Thursday, March 27, 2008

Do Deadlines Lead to Faulty Decisions on Drugs at FDA?

FDA has deadlines for how fast it’s supposed to respond to applications for new drugs. But those deadlines may be pushing the agency to make hasty decisions, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.
Drugs approved in the two months before the deadline are more likely to wind up with serious safety problems [...]

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