"We really need to do more than react after the fact, " FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said in a news briefing.

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In an Aug. 1 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal citing an egregiously flawed, biased study, agency head Margaret Hamburg claimed that FDA is outperforming their European counterpart in drug approvals.

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But a lot of credit for this recent bounce should go to the FDA itself, which under Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has worked more closely with companies to streamline the approval process, particularly in cancer and other rare diseases.

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In March 2009, before Obama named Margaret Hamburg as commissioner of the FDA, I wrote that over the past five years only five of six antibiotics approved by the FDA were approved, and detailed the difficult path that another new antibiotic was having in trying to reach the market.

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"There are very, very strong opinions and powerful voices both on the consumer and public health side and on the industry side, and we have worked very hard to sort of figure out what really makes sense and also what is implementable, " FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

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"Research has shown that access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States, " said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg in a statement.

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