Behind the scenes in Eliquis drama

The June issue of Pharmaceuticals Monthly explores the delay in the approval of apixaban (Eliquis) by the FDA. “Apixaban shows how a review that seems, on its face, like it should be a quick and clean affair can become derailed by issues that, but for the agency’s own public disclosures post-approval, would never see the light of day,” according to the article.

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