The US Food and Drug Administration is adjusting expectations for its Sentinel drug safety monitoring system to adapt to the “hard truth” that reliable funding is not assured.
‘Hard Truths’ For Sentinel: US FDA Scales Back Active Surveillance Ambitions
The agency will focus less on new capabilities and more on meeting explicit mandates for the Sentinel active surveillance system, in part due to budgetary realities.
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