MedPage Today December 8, 2017
Senators ask FDA, National Institutes of Health for a progress report.
Top brass at the FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spoke of the progress they’ve made since the 21st Century Cures Act was passed 1 year ago, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Thursday.
The primary aim of the bill was to accelerate the development of new therapies and cures for hard-to-treat diseases.
At the hearing, Democrats argued to boost funding for the NIH and the FDA, but Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) panned the idea, saying that his committee cannot “usually” appropriate money.
In short, the Appropriation’s Committee is “the money committee.”
In total, “Cures” budgeted $4.8 billion for...
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