We think this will provide more rapid development and approval of vaccines.

We are not saying we are confident these drugs will not cause liver toxicity,

The rule we will be publishing today represents the first major overhaul of the format and content or prescribing information in 25 years. With this step, the FDA believes we are driving into the information age, out of the 20th century and into the 21st century. These changes will not only enable better access to paper information but will enable the revolution in electronic prescribing information.

This will allow us to test a broader variety of compounds in people early and then pick the best one for taking forward.

I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.

We really need to incorporate more modern science into the process. We have this tremendous science in the lab discovering new innovations that would help people, but the process for development is actually what we did 100 years ago.