US FDA’s Breakneck Approval Pace Clashes With Advisory Committee Mandate
Executive Summary
FDA has approved more than 100 novel molecules in the past two years, almost all of them without an advisory committee stop. Is it time to revisit a 2007 law that was intended to assure a public vetting of NMEs prior to approval?
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