Nektar's Novel Opioid For Lower Back Pain Heads To US FDA Panel For Wide-Ranging Discussion
Executive Summary
Nektar's novel opioid oxycodegol will be the first opioid analgesic taken up by an advisory committee in more than a year after the agency spent 2019 reevaluating its regulatory paradigm.
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