Thursday, May 17, 2012

Researcher: More Premarket CER Would Allow FDA To Focus On Big Therapeutic Advances

Mandating comparative effectiveness studies in premarket drug reviews could reduce the number of new pharmaceutical applications for products that are exhausting limited FDA review resources without providing substantive improvement over what has already been marketed, according to a prominent researcher with a history of provoking the drug industry on both safety and efficacy issues.


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