The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace  Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States  While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery and clinical testing of new therapeutic agents, it is the FDA' s role and responsibility to facilitate the transfer of new discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace
Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients
Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not help patients.