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Science 22 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5832, p. 1669
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145966
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Editorial

Fixing the Drug Laws

Donald Kennedy

The pharmaceutical business is a multinational enterprise of great significance to human health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), once called the world standard in regulating new drug approvals, may still deserve that status. But, as was described earlier in this space, public confidence in the agency has been shaken. That's why it's important that we restore the FDA's capacity to do the quality of work that all health care systems require.

Donald Kennedy is Editor-in-Chief of Science.

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