Speed up approval for new health care products and minimize a major drug shortage. Sounds good so far, right? Let’s hope lawmakers get this right with a new bill designed to speed delivery and avert shortages of life-saving medicines.

Throughout the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) history, the speed of drug, device, and biologics product approval time has swung pendulum-like, first faster, then slower, then faster, and lately, slower. Get the trend?

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