Australia Plans to Expedite Drug Approval Process

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reports that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is planning to implement new approval pathways in an effort to improve and speed access to therapeutics.    Among the new pathways reported is an expedited approval pathway that allows for accelerated assessment of new medicines - potentially allowing them to come to market three months sooner than the current framework -and a provisional approval pathway, which could speed up approval by as much as two years.   For more on this story,

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