Keeping Track: Amgen Parsabiv Is Latest To Receive Complete Response; Pfizer Troxyca ER Finally Approved; Remune Returns

The latest drug development news and highlights from our FDA Performance Tracker.

The complete response letter continues to be a common tool for FDA in 2016 as the agency issued at least the thirtieth CRL of the year – and the tenth for a novel agent – to Amgen Inc.'s calcimimetic Parsabiv.

One of the products that received a CRL earlier in the year, Immune Response Biopharma's therapeutic HIV vaccine Remune, returned...

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