Featured Story | | | Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Researchers have raised concerns with the level of evidence needed to win accelerated approval from the FDA. Regulators stand accused of waving through drugs on the basis of slight data and then failing to ensure confirmatory postapproval trials validate the decision. |
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