Accelerated Approval: Midodrine Experience Shows Regulatory Challenge US FDA Faces With Makena
Executive Summary
The orthostatic hypotension treatment midodrine has been on the market for more than 20 years despite the failure of postmarketing studies to confirm clinical benefit; an advisory committee soon will weigh the future of AMAG’s preterm birth drug Makena, which failed its confirmatory trial required as a condition of accelerated approval.
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