Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2017
Disclosing the conflicts of interest of US Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee members
2 May 2017 - The agency excludes many individuals because of conflicts of interest; it may, however, determine that the advantages of a conflicted member’s participation outweigh the disadvantages. Advisory committees are by their nature advisory; the FDA makes the final decisions.
In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Xu and colleagues at the US FDA report on the conflicts of interest of the voting members of the agency’s advisory committees.
