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Beltway Bandits
Corn, David | January 23, 1989 issue

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For years drug manufacturers and their ideological allies have griped that it takes too long to get a drug O.K.'d by the Food and Drug Administration. Then came AIDS. "Tragic as it is, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s offers a real opportunity for broad reform of the drug approval process: stated a recent editorial in Regulation, a leading mouthpiece for deregulators published by the American Enterprise Institute. The AIDS epidemic has led to a consensus that drugs intended to treat life-threatening diseases should be approved faster. Both Ralph Nader's Health Research Group and the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief supported the FDA's recent decision to shorten the years-long approval process for such drugs.

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BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; PHARMACEUTICAL industry; UNITED States. Food & Drug Administration; HEALTH care industry; DRUGS; UNITED States
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