Tag: Diana DeGette

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

The 21st Century Cures Act: Familiar old promises that we'll have all sorts of new cures if only the FDA would stop being so pesky about requiring rigorous evidence of efficacy and safety before approving a drug.

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 […]

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The “health freedom” legislative agenda for 2015 and beyond

Now that we’re solidly into 2015, it’s a good time to check in on what the legislative priorities are going to be among various advocates of quackery and “health freedom” (but I repeat myself). There’s a new Republican Congress, and a lot of chairmanships are going to be reshuffled, with various legislators finding themselves in […]