Undue Influence.(regulation of the Pharmaceutical industry)

How the Drug Industry's Power Goes Unchecked and Why the Problem Is Likely to Get Worse

THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION HAS long been the target of both industry and ideological forces seeking to scale back regulation. With a Republican now in the White House, conservatives are once again sounding the call. On February 2, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial railing against the FDA's "costly and archaic system of drug regulation." Enabling consumers to access the "wonder drugs" of the twenty-first century, the Journal argued, requires ...

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