RT Journal
A1 Mitka M
T1 SPeeding device approval
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD January 11
VO 307
IS 2
SP 134
OP 134
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1931
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1931
AB 
The sponsors said the Patient Access to Medical Innovation Act (S 1865 [http://thomas.loc.gov]), introduced November 15, will promote the development of devices to treat patients with rare diseases, help improve the approval process for medical devices by allowing the Food and Drug Administration to more easily consult with experts, and lift the current profit cap on “humanitarian use devices”—devices that treat rare conditions—that go through a special approval process.