New drug approvals in the U.S. more than doubled in 2017
Drug approvals in the U.S. more than doubled in the U.S. and also increased in the European Union in 2017, compared to the previous year. The Food and Drug Administration approved 46 new medicines, a 21-year-high, including some that target rare diseases. And that number doesn’t even include promising new cell and gene therapies from …
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Drug approvals in the U.S. more than doubled in the U.S. and also increased in the European Union in 2017, compared to the previous year. The Food and Drug Administration approved 46 new medicines, a 21-year-high, including some that target rare diseases. And that number doesn’t even include promising new cell and gene therapies from Novartis and Gilead Sciences, whose drugs fell into a different category.