Stick To Basics: Attempt To Improve Heart Failure Symptomatic Endpoint Trips Up Novartis’ Serelaxin
Executive Summary
While on paper a surrogate endpoint was OK with the agency, company’s attempt to advance endpoint by incorporating clinical outcomes gets pushback from FDA and its advisors.
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