Day: July 22, 2021

Pregnant women are almost always excluded from clinical trials and pregnancy is usually considered an adverse event leading to dropping women from ongoing clinical trials. FDA, along with European regulators, would like to change that. But it is not easy to implement. There is no law that could mandate inclusion of pregnant women in clinical … Read more

Once FDA has approved a product, it almost never reverses that decision unless there are compelling safety reasons such as previously unknown life-threatening events related to the drug. FDA vigorously defends its decisions and never expresses “buyer’s remorse”. A recent case emphasized this policy when FDA rejected a petition filed by a professor at Ohio … Read more