Keeping Track: Approvals, A Burst Of Submissions, And Some Priority Reviews

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

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Here's your drug review and approval news in brief: holiday season of mass approvals has continued on, highlighted by the US FDA's backing of Novo Nordisk AS' Ozempic (semaglutide) for the treatment of type 2 diabates. The approval was No. 41 in the agency's 2017 new drug approval count.

But approvals had to share the spotlight with submissions, as Siga Technologies Inc., Amicus Therapeutics Inc

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