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REMS Communications Need FDA Logo To Boost Doctors’ Attention, Advisors Say

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Risk Communication Advisory Committee suggests that adding the agency imprimatur to REMS materials may help distinguish it from promotional mail and ensure providers read the communications.

FDA could add a more visual symbol of its approval of REMS materials and communications in order to entice more providers to read them, members of the agency’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee suggested Dec. 17.

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