FDA Plays It Safe With Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa By Approving A Single Dosing Option
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Regulators accept bleeding risk for superiority over warfarin, staying away from a temptingly safer but less effective dabigatran dose.
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