US FDA, Advisory Committees Rarely Disagree
Executive Summary
A Milbank Quarterly study and a Pink Sheet analysis show that disagreement between the US FDA and its advisory committee meetings doesn't happen often; it is even rarer for the agency to approve a drug against the advice from a panel.
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