Post-Marketing Risk Management An Issue For Takeda’s Entyvio

Advisory committee decides overwhelmingly that PML risk has been adequately characterized, but still wants post-marketing observation. There was no clear decision on the extent of the program needed.

Although it was adequately assessed in Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s Entyvio (vedolizumab) development program and no cases were discovered, the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy still lingers enough to require a potentially extensive post-marketing risk management plan, an FDA advisory committee concluded.

However, the practitioners at the joint meeting of FDA’s Gastrointestinal Drugs and Drug Safety and Risk Management advisory committees were...

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