Journalism Grants
Funding For:
What You Really Need to Know About Drug Development
Cost & Quality / Health Care Coverage / Health Care Reform
Recipient:
Healthcare Triage
Grant Period:
Feb 01, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022
AMOUNT:
$20,000.00
Summary of the Project:
This project will inform the public about the FDA drug approval process, covering topics including increasing off-label drug use, the approval of expensive drugs such as Aduhelm, emergency use authorizations (EUAs), and how harmful opioids made it to market.
About the Grantee:
Healthcare Triage is an online video series about health care hosted by Aaron E. Carroll, MD, and the Healthcare Triage team, who explain health care policy, medical research and answer viewer questions about medicine, health and health care.
Related Grantee Work
June 10, 2022
How Do Drugs Get Invented?
In this first episode, Healthcare Triage discusses the drug approval process from the discovery phase all the way to what happens after its approval.
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Not All Drugs Get Approved the Same Way: Exceptions to FDA Rules
In this episode, Healthcare Triage discusses alternate drug approval pathways. Watch here:
Learn MoreJune 21, 2022
Just Because a Drug is FDA Approved Doesn't Mean it Works
In this third and final episode, Healthcare Triage discusses recent controversies about some drugs that have taken alternative routes to FDA approval.
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