Keeping Track: Shutdown Edition

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

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While the United States government shut down lasted only one business day, review and approval events in the biopharma world seem to have experience a more extended lapse. Yes, it was a slow week, but there was still enough news that it needs to be presented in brief:

The US FDA gave its blessing to Advanced Accelerator Applications SA's Lutathera (lutetium Lu 177 dotatate), marking the agency's first novel drug approval of 2018. (Novartis AGfinished acquiring...

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