ROCKET AF’s Design Causes Headaches For Xarelto Sponsors
Executive Summary
Key design elements of the Xarelto pivotal trial in atrial fibrillation have come back to haunt sponsors Bayer and Johnson & Johnson during the course of the rivaroxaban NDA review.
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