FDA Touts Increased Drug Approvals, Near Record for a Decade
Number of new drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the year ending in September 2011 an approval rate that has been exceeded just once in the previous decade.

FDA Touts Pace of Its Drug Approvals Over European Counterparts
U.S. regulators logged the second- highest approval rate for new drugs in a decade in fiscal 2011, clearing at least two dozen cancer medicines and other compounds before European counterparts.