21stCentury Cures Act: An Act of Cure or Diagnosis?

21 st Century Cures Act : No Cure for an FDA Patent Bias

BY TERRY G. MAHN O ne of the more controversial provisions in the legislative behemoth known as the 21 Century Cures Act, signed into law by President Obama on December 13, 2016, involves an overhaul of the regulatory approval process for new uses for old drugs, a fertile target for private investment in the important field of precision medicine. To incentivize investment in drugs that have alr...

How can an act of parliament cure cancer?

Experts confident of Congressional funding for US Cures Act.

Just 5 weeks before his presidency ended, Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, a law that will sustain several of his signature biomedical research initiatives, streamline the US drug and medical device approval process, improve the nation’s mental health-care system, and combat the country’s opioid misuse epidemic. The legislation won nearly unanimous approval in both houses of Cong...

Health, Wealth, and the 21st Century Cures Act.

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Pragmatic Awareness of the Request Speech Act in English as an Additional Language: Monolinguals or Bilinguals?

This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...