Since the approval of dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim) in Europe in 2008 and in the US in 2010 there have been persistent and lingering concerns about the drug’s safety. Now the FDA plans to perform a large new assessment of the drug compared to warfarin.
n December 30 the FDA posted a request for public comment on a proposed protocol of the study, which it describes as “a one-time assessment of selected safety outcomes in adults with atrial fibrillation who are new users of dabigatran or warfarin.”
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