FDA Opens Up: Can Industry Live With Greater Transparency?

Executive Summary

Drug sponsors are finding little to like about FDA’s transparency initiative - especially proposals that would allow the agency to disclose more about products still in development. But given the public interest in greater transparency - and FDA’s interest in avoiding another Avandia - industry needs to decide whether this is a fight worth having. This article was originally published in the July/August 2010 issue of The RPM Report.