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Re:Many medical devices on the market have undergone no clin... by aaavl2821 on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:33AM (#16393009)
The NIH budget has declined 20% in the last 15 years. Not only is there a strong downward trend, but the movements in funding levels are gradual. I'd say that tripling the NIH budget is not just politically difficult, but politically impossible
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Re:Many medical devices on the market have undergone no clin... by CogitoCogito on Saturday February 17, 2018 @07:06AM (#16400342)
Then just leave the drugs grandfathered. If we view something as a problem (i.e. the lack of formal drug approval processes on old drugs), but we are not willing to solve the problem right (i.e. providing funding to government agencies to do the research), then we shouldn't do anything at all. Continuing the status quo is also a reasonable action.
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