This week the Congressional Budget Office pleaded for a more hard-headed approach to assessing the costs and benefits of new drugs and medical procedures.

这个星期，美国国会预算办公室(Congressional Budget Office)请求采用更为强硬的措施来评估新药品和医疗程序的成本和效益。

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The office of new drugs has too much oversight over post-market surveillance.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Mechanisms to improve safety would include post-market surveillance that would report directly to the commissioner of the FDA, and be separate from the office of new drugs.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The document, written by John Jenkins, the director of the Office of New Drugs, and Paul Seligman, director of the office that handles statistical science and epidemiology, clearly spells out the reasons for the Bextra recall and what Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) would have to do to get that drug back on the market.

FORBES: Chief Executive Hank McKinnell