Ebola Vaccines: FDA Weighs Alternative Study Designs, Approval Pathways
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
As incidence of Ebola declines, advisory committee will consider alternatives to randomized controlled trials – an approach FDA had previously argued was inappropriate.
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