–FDA reviewers have raised no major questions ahead of Tuesday’s advisory panel meeting. The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee will likely lend its support to an important new expanded indication for empagliflozin (Jardiance, Boehringer Ingelheim). The new indication is to reduce the risk of all-cause mortality by reducing the incidence of cardiovascular death,…
FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Against Approval Of Novartis Heart Failure Drug
March 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee voted unanimously (11-0) against approval of the biologics license application (BLA) for serelaxin (proposed trade name Reasanz). The novel drug from Novartis was intended to be used in patients with acute heart failure. The once highly-promising drug, which received a ”breakthrough therapy” designation from the FDA last…
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