Here are four key points:
1. The act includes $8.75 billion to fund research by the National Institutes of Health.
2. The act also changes the process that the FDA uses to assess and approve new medicines, aiming to speed up assessments of new treatments.
3. The 21st Century Cures Act passed 344-77.
4. The Senate is working on its own version of the bill.
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