21st Century Cures Act

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A 21st Century Cures Act is a U.S. healthcare act that aims to speed up the drug and device approval process and bring treatments to market faster.



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2022

  • (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Cures_Act Retrieved:2022-2-11.
    • The 21st Century Cures Act is a United States law enacted by the 114th United States Congress in December 2016 and then signed into law on December 13, 2016. It authorized $6.3 billion in funding, mostly for the National Institutes of Health.[1] The act was supported especially by large pharmaceutical manufacturers and was opposed especially by some consumer organizations.[2]

      Proponents said that it would streamline the drug and device approval process and bring treatments to market faster. Opponents said that it would allow drugs and devices to be approved on weaker evidence, bypassing randomized, controlled trials, and bring more dangerous or ineffective treatments to market. [3] The bill incorporated the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act, first introduced by then-Congressman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., which increased the availability of psychiatric hospital beds and established a new assistant secretary for mental health and substance use disorders. [4] [5]