So Why Don’t We Speed Up Approvals And Save More Lives?

This is from an NBER Working Paper by Frank Lichtenberg: We investigate the effect of the vintage (year of FDA approval) of the prescription drugs used by an individual on his or her survival and medical expenditure. When we only control for age, sex, and interview year, we estimate that a one-year increase in drug […]



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