FDA: 35 Innovative New Drugs Approved in Fiscal Year 2011, Touts Faster Pace than European Counterparts

Report shows quick approvals of safe and effective medicines occur in the United States before other countries. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved 35 new medicines. This is among the highest number of approvals in the past decade, surpassed only by 2009 (37). Many of the drugs are important advances for patients, including: two new treatments for hepatitis C; a drug for late-stage prostate cancer; the first new drug for Hodgkin's lymphoma in 30 years; and the first new drug for lupus in 50 years.

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