Many drugs with accelerated approvals lack high added value compared with other therapies, and conducting further trials of these drugs is financially risky for the manufacturers.
republican. even as john huntsman is about to announce that he s running for president, he is sprinting away from his own record and his own career. he is shedding his old policy positions like a maple tree sheds leaves in the fall. the old john huntsman for example favored a cap and trade energy policy. the new john huntsman says cap and trade would be bad for the economy. the old governor said he wanted state health reform with an individual mandate. the new huntman says he would repeal the reform. he says the federal stimulus should have been bigger and he happily spent what stimulus money there was in his state. the new john huntsman says the stimulus should have just been tax cuts. what s with all this spending? the fact that he s rejecting ideas formerly known as his policy positions is the surest sign that he s running to win. this is not going to be a ron