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FDA dropping CVOT requirement for diabetes drugs

Small and medium-sized biotechs could enter diabetes space following FDA decision to drop CVOT requirement

March 9, 2020 10:45 PM UTC
Updated on Mar 12, 2020 at 8:47 PM UTC

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect details contained in FDA’s guidance.

Twelve years after FDA issued draft guidance that made it exorbitantly expensive to bring a new diabetes therapy to market, the agency will no longer require cardiovascular outcomes trials either pre- or postmarket. That, in turn, could re-open the indication to small-and-medium size biotechs...