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Bautista Vivanco: Why Are Americans Still Waiting for Life-Saving Drugs?
Episode 2007
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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While patients in Canada, Europe, and Australia access life-saving therapies, Americans are left waiting, sometimes decades, due to the FDA’s rigid bottleneck. Bautista Vivanco, a Young Voices contributor and Research Associate at the Department of Health Policy Studies, where he analyzes FDA drug approvals, the budgets of health-related government programs, and global health indicators, joins WRFH to discuss.