FDA is bringing in outside consultants to help improve staff interactions and build leadership in the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Celgene will get exclusive use of Quanticel's single-cell genomic analysis to tweak its clinical pipeline, and it also has exclusive options to acquire the venture-backed start-up.

With an unrestricted label and once-daily dosing, rivaroxaban will do battle with Boehringer-Ingelheim's dabigatran, which is dosed twice a day but can claim superior efficacy to warfarin in the atrial fibrillation population.