The 21st Century Cures Act regulatory reform provisions amount to a lot of little things: tweaks to encourage ongoing activities rather than bold departures at a time when the overall regulatory climate is good for innovators. But the law could also be the start of something bigger – a more formal division within the US FDA between oncology and everything else.
The 21st Century Cures Act includes a lot of FDA-related reform provisions, but it is not a transformative piece of legislation for the agency.
The bipartisan encomiums about a new era of innovation and the howls of complaint about lowering standards from a handful...