Keeping Track: A Second Straight Burst Of FDA Approvals

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

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As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, the US FDA followed up one massive week of approvals with another, giving the greenlight three new molecular entities (NME) and a slew of supplemental indications. Here's your news in brief:

But more importantly, the agency finally unveiled its biologic suffix naming convention, approving the first two novel biologics with a...

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