FDA Product Promotion Regs Shouldn’t Stop Companies From Challenging CER Results, Official Says
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
FDA’s Bob Temple dismisses the notion that drug companies, even with FDA’s regulation of product promotions, do not have the ability to challenge comparative effectiveness research findings they believe to be false or misleading. He says FDA is in no way trying to “deny them that right.”
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