Eye Of The Pricing Storm: FDA's Woodcock Withstands Gale-Force Rhetoric

House committee members deliver a fierce, if not terribly substantive, critique of FDA review processes as part of a hearing on Turing and Valeant.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director Janet Woodcock's performance at the Feb. 4 House hearing on drug pricing offered another example of why she is such a key asset to FDA, but also illustrated that congressional overseers may not have a great deal of appreciation for the agency itself.

FDA came under fire for its backlog of generic applications during the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee hearing, which focused primarily on the pricing activities of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG

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