Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Sep 2017
Many drug companies fail to conduct timely safety checks on medicines after FDA approval
22 September 2017 - In the rush to approve new medicines, the U.S. FDA often requires drug companies to study possible side effects and alternative doses for medicines once they hit the broader market.
A new analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that, in many cases, that’s not being done.
Dr. Steven Woloshin of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and colleagues looked at federal records and found that among the 614 studies mandated in 2009 and 2010, 20% were never started and 9% have been delayed.
