Healthy Innovation, Safer Families: FDA’s 2018 Strategic Policy Roadmap
From: US FDA
by Scott Gottlieb, MD, Commissioner of Food and Drugs
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These are just some of the extraordinary advances that are transforming health. But we also face challenges as we strive to ensure that Americans have access to these and other opportunities. Both the time and the cost of medical product development continues to rise for many types of products. We know that the cost of product development can impact how such products are priced, and can be a factor in limiting patients’ ability to get timely access to beneficial new treatments and services. At the same time, FDA faces new public health challenges. Principal among them is the ongoing crisis of opioid addiction. We also continue to face too much avoidable death and disease associated with smoking tobacco; and children are still becoming initiated on, and addicted to, nicotine.
