29 July 2016 - The FDA approved 13 new drugs in the first 6 months of this year.
These Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approvals consisted of 8 small molecules and 5 biologics.
FDA approvals tend to be back-loaded to the second half of the year. Last year, the FDA approved 14 new drugs in the first half of the year and 31 in the second half, for a total of 45 approvals.