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The 21st Century Cures Act — Will It Take Us Back in Time?

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  • Jerry Avorn, M.D.,
  • and Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.

In recent months, the FDA has declined to permit use of eight new sunscreen ingredients (that are already in use in Europe) without additional data. The controversy says as much about how the agency works as it does about sunscreen regulation.

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This article was published on June 3, 2015, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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