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<item congress="117" measure-type="s" measure-number="373" measure-id="id117s373" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2021-02-23" update-date="2021-05-14">
<title>BENEFIT Act of 2021</title>
<summary summary-id="id117s373v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2021-05-14">
<action-date>2021-02-23</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Better Empowerment Now to Enhance Framework and Improve Treatments Act of 2021 or the BENEFIT Act of 2021</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider relevant patient-focused drug development data, such as data from patient preference studies and patient-reported outcome data, in the risk-benefit assessment framework used in the process for approving new drugs.</p> <p>After a new drug application has been approved, the FDA's public statement about how it used patient experience data shall include a description of how such data was considered in the risk-benefit assessment framework. </p>]]></summary-text>
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