Beyond Individual Patients: FDA Emphasizes Public Health Role In Certain Benefit-Risk Decisions
Executive Summary
US FDA’s new draft guidance on benefit-risk assessments for new drugs highlights cases where it can take into account broader public health implications than just the pros and cons calculus for the patients described in a drug's label. While not a new policy perse, it is one the agency seems to have only grudgingly employed in the past.
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