USA Today (Kaiser Health News), June 7, 2015. A reward program is an extension of the 21st Century Cures bill, which seeks to rewrite the rules for drug development to make innovative treatments available faster.
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FDA Reviewing Safety of Essure Birth Control Implant
The Associated Press, June 25, 2015. Federal health regulators are reviewing the safety of an implantable contraception device after receiving reports of unusual side effects from patients, including fatigue, depression and weight gain.
Read More »House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Speed FDA Drug Approvals
The Washington Post, July 10, 2015. The bill’s laundry list of provisions that tweak the process for approving new drugs or devices have raised significant concern from industry watchdogs and physicians who say the legislation is aimed more at helping drug and device companies than patients.
Read More »21st Century Cures Drug Bill Triggers a DC Dust-Up Over Relaxed Development Regs
Fierce Biotech, July 10, 2015. Lawmakers in the House easily passed the 21st Century Cures Act today, a big step toward once again shaking up the legal framework built to guide drug development in the U.S. while significantly boosting the amount of funding that flows to the NIH. Consumer advocates, though, see the new development regulations as a recipe for unleashing drugs and devices that would later prove dangerous and unhelpful.
Read More »House Passes ‘Cures’ Bill to Hasten Drugs to Market
Medscape, July 10, 2015. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill designed to speed up the development and approval of new drugs and medical devices. “The bill greatly benefits the pharmaceutical industry [and] medical device manufacturers,” said Diana Zuckerman.
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