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John Hickenlooper: “In a 10 year period, 99% of the drugs approved by the FDA…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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John Hickenlooper Presses Trump's NIH Nominee On Growing Rates Of Vaccine Skepticism

Published | Video Starts at 02:40

We've heard a lot of people suggest that somehow the NIH is allowing the United States to be taken advantage of in some ways. One fact that is striking to me, that In a 10 year period, 99% of the drugs approved by the FDA were developed with research to a larger or lesser extent from NIH. Are you worried about the US ability to maintain that leadership? Do you think we're being ripped off in some way? (02:40–02:55)

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Asserts that 99% of FDA-approved drugs in a decade involved NIH research.

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