From: Beckie Child

U.S. Alters Test Policy On Psychiatric Drugs
FDA Won't Require 6-Month Studies

The government will back down from a plan to require long-term studies
of new psychiatric drugs before allowing them on the market, regulators
said yesterday.

The reversal of the recently adopted policy came after a panel of experts
unanimously recommended against requiring such studies as a condition of
approval. While such studies are needed, the experts said, delaying
decisions on new medications would hurt patients.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501576.html

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