The Truth About 2011's New Drug Approvals
As many new drugs were approved in the first half of this year as in all of last. That's good news, right? Maybe not.The Food and Drug Administration has approved 20 new medicines in the first half of this year, one short of of the total for all of 2010. Janet Woodcock, head of the FDA division that handles new drug approvals, said in Congressional testimony that this shows the FDA is not ...