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Column: Vaccines call on us to protect one another. But the forces undermining them have been decades in the making.

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The 21st Century Cures Act: Old vinegary wine in a new bottle

By oracknows on August 16, 2015. The approval of new drugs and medical devices is a process fraught with scientific, political, and ethical landmines. Inherent in any such process is an unavoidable conflict between rigorous science and safety on the one side, which tend to slow the process down by requiring large randomized clinical trials that can take years, versus forces that demand faster approval. For example, patients suffering from deadly diseases demand faster approval of drugs that might give them the hope of surviving their disease, or at least of surviving considerably longer. This is a powerful force for reform, as evidenced by HIV/AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s that led to the development of fast-track approval mechanisms for drugs for life-threatening conditions, a change whose effects have been mixed. It s also a powerful force potentially for ill, as I ve documented in my posts about the understandable but misguided right-to-try movement. Af

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