03/14/2013
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"This provision will get products to the market faster because innovators will be able to get clinical trials underway in a timely and predictable way."
"It now takes, on average, well over a billion dollars and 14 years from the time a drug is discovered to the time of approval."
"H.R. 4069, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, introduced by Reps. Marino and Blackburn, will facilitate greater collaboration between industry stakeholders and regulators ..."
"Today's legislative hearing focuses on three bills designed to improve the predictability and transparency in Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation."