
Lucrative pharma jobs leave FDA with hundreds of vacancies
The FDA has more than 700 job vacancies in its division that reviews new drugs, and the agency has been under fire for taking too long to approve medications.
The FDA has more than 700 job vacancies in its division that reviews new drugs, and the agency has been under fire for taking too long to approve medications.
Following a 15-year high in 2012, new FDA drug approvals were down last year. Among the 27 new drugs approved in 2013 were eight new cancer therapies, three diagnostic imaging agents and three medicines that received expedited review under the FDA’s new “breakthrough therapy” designation program. That’s about on par with the average over the […]