“Disturbing” Proposed Patient Population Trips Up Sanofi’s Semuloparin Before ODAC
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee recommends by a 14-1 vote, with one abstention, that the agency not approve the low molecular weight heparin for a population of cancer patients that is too broadly defined.
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