EMA and FDA his­tor­i­cal­ly agree on just about every new drug ap­proval, but is that slow­ly chang­ing?

The EMA and FDA con­cur more than 90% of the time in their de­ci­sions to ap­prove new drugs, ac­cord­ing to a new study from EMA and FDA of­fi­cials that looked at 107 ap­pli­ca­tions from 2014 to 2016.

In just eight of the 107 ap­pli­ca­tions, the FDA ini­tial­ly de­clined to ap­prove a new drug or bi­o­log­ic while the EMA ap­proved it, al­though in all eight of those cas­es, the FDA end­ed up ap­prov­ing that drug or bi­o­log­ic. And in one case (Take­da’s Nin­laro (ix­a­zomib) for mul­ti­ple myelo­ma), the FDA ap­proved the treat­ment and the EMA ini­tial­ly did not, but lat­er did.

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