Boehringer’s Novel Exercise Claims In COPD May Spur FDA Action To Clarify Requirements
Executive Summary
Company was hoping for an exercise tolerability claim for olodaterol, but members of the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee questioned several aspects of the trials and suggested FDA issue guidance on the matter.
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