To America's Health
Subtitle: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 482)
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press; Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780817999025
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Medical; Pharmaceutical policy; Law and legislation; United States; Public Policy - Social Policy; Pharmacy; Health Policy; Drugs; Food and Drug Administration; Pharmaceutical industry
First sentence: Medical technology has advanced at a stunning pace in the past half century, enabling drug and biotechnology companies to become major contributors of innovative life--saving and life-enhancing medicines.
Description: This hard hitting book describes the current regulation of drugs by the FDA and proposes a model for fundamental yet workable reform, including an innovative proposal for drug testing and certification review.