FDA’s Mermaid Problem: Makena and Pharmaceutical Half-Breeds
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
The Makena controversy is moving to court, and likely to a very unhappy ending for KV Pharma. But FDA’s decidedly unusual communications about compounding in the midst of that controversy may have longer term implications.
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