Posted on March 26, 2008 by Sitemaster
According to a report published in the Daily Telegraph, the Department of Health in the UK has given approval to a network of 19 hospital units where terminally ill cancer patients can volunteer to participate in trials of experimental cancer therapies that may be years away from being approved. Apparently the first of these Centres for Experimental [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Sitemaster
Interviewed for an article in today’s issue of the Financial Times, the newly reinstated head of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Janet Woodcock, has stoutly and rightly defended the the FDA’s recent decisions not to approve a number of recent NDAs, stating that science, and not politics or pricing, is and has always [...]
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