The center has around 1,300 employees in "Review teams" that evaluate and approve new drugs.

At recurrence, patients should be considered for clinical trials that evaluate new drugs and biological response modifiers.

Such patients are also candidates for studies that evaluate new drugs and biological response modifiers following radiation therapy.

Clinical trials evaluating new drugs and biological therapy.

The center's best-known job is to evaluate new drugs before they can be sold.

The device is being sold to pharmaceutical companies, which use it to evaluate drugs being tested in animals.

Virtually all officials acknowledge that the current procedures for testing and evaluating experimental drugs are rigorous and time-consuming.

Therefore, these approaches have found more utility in evaluating already approved drugs or late stage drug candidates for drug repositioning.

Results of meta-analyses compete with or could even replace the huge, definitive clinical trials that are often used to evaluate drugs and other therapies.

Private insurers and health plans evaluate and compare drugs all the time.