We are seeing both development and review times decreased significantly with exciting new therapies entering the marketplace much sooner for the patients who need them. Last year we approve the most new drugs in almost 20 years. And more orphan drugs than ever before. 41 of these new drugs were first in class products, resulting in a breathtaking array of truly Innovative New therapies for patients, and the majority of these new drugs were approved using some kind of expedited pathway. Today, contrary to what many would say, fda approved drugs faster on average than all other advanced nations, and the vast majority of the time, the u. S. Is the first country in the world to approve important and novel medicines. And substantial improvements are being made in the efficiency of medical devices used as well. Moreover, we have accomplished this while remaining the worlds Gold Standard for safety and effectiveness. Yet we all recognize that despite the successes, too many diseases still awa
Table. Okay. Well lets you know, i hope youre not diminishing my point, which is i think there must be more women out there who are interested in this subject who would enrich the conversation. In any event, you know i think its apposite in a discussion of the middle east, that we focus on iran, because i think its central to the situation. But before we get into the iranian vat, we ought to jump off of jacobs point a moment ago. There has never been, in our lifetimes, a situation such as that that we see in the middle east right now. Every single country in the region is involved in a military conflict with the exception of oman, i think, every single country. The analogy to the balkans is not over the top. It may not turn into world war. But we already see it fueling unrest in africa, in parts of asia. We already know that it has potential consequences for extremism and terror attacks in europe and in north america. It clearly has global consequences economically. It is clearly you k
Dov zakheim i dont know if david will agree, i think a point to david made previously goes to the heart of your concern. Our foreignpolicy is being run by a small group of people in the white house, most of whom have minimal foreignpolicy experience. Which is remarkable, because theyve been doing it for six years, but it is if it has been six days. I think that regardless of who is elected, the real issue is, does the White House Run foreign policy, or do we leave it to the professionals. People like your self and others who serve in treasury, state defense, commerce. We have a lot of international agencies, and young people are more interconnected with the world than any other generation. There is no inherent reason why we should be operating the way we are today. The key is, do we rely on her our executive agencies to do what the law tells them to do, to the extent that a new administration, regardless of party will default back to , executive agencies, i think youll see a very diffe
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Of the world. President obama though, this is unprecedented, he said that is not a real session. You say you are in session but i say you are not. I say that is not a real session but actually you are at recess thus i feel i have the power to make recess appointments that is what was going on during these particular three says appointments this is the first time a president has ever done that the firstever recess appointment during the time of the senate itself believed it was in session. The president claims the power to decide whether the senate is in session or not to override its own judgment whether or not it is in session despite clear contextual command that the senate is the master of its own rules with the constitution. I would say it is hard to imagine the government will win on that point. I would be very surprised. But for canning to win it has to be only one of these points but anyone of these points can persuade any of the justices. You could get the votes from any of the