FDA Panels Favor Advair, Symbicort Over Single-Entity LABAs For Asthma
Executive Summary
Three FDA advisory committees recommended the withdrawal of asthma indications for two long-acting beta agonists - GlaxoSmithKline's Serevent (salmeterol) and Novartis's Foradil (formoterol) -during a Dec. 11 meeting
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