FDA Opens Up: Can Industry Live With Greater Transparency?
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
Drug sponsors are finding little to like about FDA's transparency initiative-especially proposals that would allow the agency to disclose more about products still in development. But given the public interest in greater transparency-and FDA's interest in avoiding another Avandia-industry needs to decide whether this is a fight worth having.
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