'Just Say It!' – New Streamlined Guidance Format Coming, FDA's Woodcock Says

US guidances will be shorter and use a series of bullet points to communicate key ideas, replacing the current longer and wordier format.

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FDA is embracing the short bulleted list to communicate its thinking about drug development going forward.

Rather than continue issuing guidances that are riddled with legalese, long paragraphs and sometimes extensive footnotes, going forward the documents will be shortened to a few pages

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