The biggest win­ners and losers in the 2016 game of block­busters

We’re just a lit­tle past the halfway mark in 2016, and we’ve got a mixed as­sort­ment of trends at play for FDA watch­ers in the big game of block­buster ap­provals — John Car­roll

First—the FDA’s list of new drugs which earned a green flag is now just at 15 (16 if you in­clude last night’s OK for Sanofi’s di­a­betes drug lixise­n­atide). For all of last year, the FDA OK’d a gen­er­a­tion-high record of 45 new drugs, leav­ing the in­dus­try far off pace. Any sig­nif­i­cant fall in that num­ber is like­ly to trig­ger some new ques­tions about R&D pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

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