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Three strikes and kids’ cancer is out

Pediatric priority review vouchers end at midnight tonight as House passes latest version of spending bill

December 21, 2024 1:44 AM UTC

Pediatric PRVs and other provisions to support pediatric drug development were stripped out of an eleventh-hour spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday evening to avoid a government shutdown. 

It is the House’s third attempt at a spending bill — one that also cut out PBM reform. The Biosecure Act never made it into the first bill...