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Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit the market. But do they have sufficient independence from the companies they are meant to regulate? Maryanne Demasi investigates Over the past decades, regulatory agencies have seen large proportions of their budgets funded by the industry they are sworn to regulate. In 1992, the US Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), allowing industry to fund the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly through “user fees” intended to support th...

EASTHAMPTON — Investigators have ruled that the cause of a Monday morning fire that set a Riley Street garage and home ablaze and displaced a family of six is “undetermined.”Though the case will remain open, Easthampton Fire Chief Christopher Norris...