How Much Can Trump’s Childhood Cancer Funding Proposal Boost Drug Approvals?

President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union Address broadly touched on the themes of funding childhood cancer research, drug pricing and eliminating HIV.

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Only three of the 17 novel cancer treatments approved by the US FDA in 2018 contained a pediatric indication. But can an increase in government funding bring a boost to this area?

President Trump appears to think so. In his 2019 State of the Union address, the president said that his next...

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