Al­most 9 in 10 Amer­i­cans want the FDA to ex­plain why some drugs are re­ject­ed, new JA­MA sur­vey finds

A sur­vey of more than 1,000 Amer­i­can adults showed that 86% of par­tic­i­pants sup­port­ed the FDA’s dis­clo­sure of why cer­tain drugs are not ap­proved, ac­cord­ing to the re­sults of the sur­vey from Johns Hop­kins med­ical pro­fes­sors pub­lished re­cent­ly in JA­MA.

The sur­vey comes as the FDA does not cur­rent­ly ex­plain to the pub­lic why it is­sues com­plete re­sponse, or re­jec­tion, let­ters to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies for cer­tain drugs, and the pub­lic is left to tease out what oc­curred from the com­pa­nies’ com­ments.

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