Anti-NGF Drugs Clinical Holds Could Depend On What FDA Panel Thinks Of Standard Of Care

FDA’s Arthritis Advisory Committee will review troubling reports that the drugs, meant to relieve chronic pain from osteoarthritis and other diseases, may also destroy patients’ joints.

The Arthritis Advisory Committee will be in the unusual position of having to advise FDA March 12 on whether it should lift the clinical holds it has placed on ongoing clinical trials of anti-nerve growth factor agents, perhaps using risk mitigation proposals advanced by sponsors Pfizer, Regeneron and J&J.

The panel will be asked to vote on

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