True Fact: Government Agencies Cooperating
By Marci Greenstein
National Institutes of Health chief, Dr. Frances Collins was talking up his agency’s partnership with the Food and Drug Administration on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show last week. The move is intended to speed up the process for getting drugs from laboratories to the marketplace. What’s surprising is that this collaboration hasn’t happened sooner. How often have we heard about patients desperate to get drugs that are successful in clinical trials but are moving at a snail’s pace through the FDA’s regulatory maze? (more…)
