1.   Accelerated approval was designed to solve that conflict for AIDS drugs, which allowed their approval based on safety data and preliminary hints that they might be effective.

2.   Accelerated approvals have helped people with HIV and cancer, he said, but more recently the process has gone too far.

3.   Accelerated approval means the company can market the drug, although the FDA still requires the company to provide additional information.

4.   ImClone, which partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop Erbitux, expected to receive accelerated approval for its new drug.

5.   Last week Glaxo asked the FDA for accelerated approval of abacavir.

6.   Scores of drug and biotechnology companies working on cancer compounds, including Roche, would benefit from the accelerated approval decisions.

7.   The company is seeking a so-called accelerated approval which allows drugmakers to market needed therapies while continuing to study them.

8.   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given accelerated approval to a pill that promises to help shrink advanced breast cancer tumors, its Swiss manufacturer said Friday.