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FDA Conflict Of Interest Screening Could Get Streamlined As Patient Involvement Increases

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Agency is considering creating a pool of pre-screened patient representatives that would make it easier to place them in FDA-sponsored formal meetings and advisory committees.

Increasing patient involvement in FDA application reviews also may lead to the agency quickening its screening for conflicts of interest.

Reforms requiring an increase in the patient voice at FDA as well as loosening conflict of interest regulations to include more experts on advisory committees were part of the

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