FDA Novel Switch Meeting Shows Gulf Between Interests
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Drug manufacturers and physicians are at odds with the pharmacy industry’s expectations for the role pharmacists will have in distributing novel switches. At an FDA public hearing, CDER Director Janet Woodcock says the agency expects to “extend the concept of self-diagnosis and self-treatment to additional drugs.”
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