Boceprevir and Telaprevir Near FDA Approval: Will Quickly Change HCV Development Rules
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
The upcoming launch of two new hepatitis C therapies will be one of the biggest biopharmaceutical stories of 2011. But FDA’s antiviral regulatory group is keen to make sure that is only the first chapter in a long story of advances in treatment in the class.
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