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FDA Approving Drugs at a Record Rate

  • January 16, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been approving new prescription drugs quicker than ever over the past few decades, but a recent study suggests there’s a major problem with the process. According to the study, published in JAMA, nearly half of recent approvals for new drugs were based on only one clinical trial. In past years, the FDA has typically based approvals off of two or more clinical trials. But when researchers analyzed FDA drug approvals from 1983 to 2018,...