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Henry Waxman: “The public wants drugs approved and out as fast as possible, and the FDA is under a lot of pressure to get drugs…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2004
The public wants drugs approved and out as fast as possible, and the FDA is under a lot of pressure to get drugs approved and marketed quickly. But the other side of that is there are problems with drugs that they don't find out about in advance and they're not doing a very good job of oversight on post-marketing.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Representative Waxman discusses the pressures on the FDA to approve drugs quickly and the implications for drug safety.

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