jueves, 31 de mayo de 2018

Press Announcements > Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new policies to reduce the ability of brand drug makers to use REMS programs as a way to block timely generic drug entry, helping promote competition and access

Press Announcements > Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new policies to reduce the ability of brand drug makers to use REMS programs as a way to block timely generic drug entry, helping promote competition and access









Our system for developing new drugs is based on a careful equilibrium enshrined in legislation by Congress that seeks to balance access with innovation.

That system enables market-based rewards for novel innovation as a way to create incentives for the time, risk and capital required to develop new medical advances. At the same time, the law allows for brisk competition from safe and effective generic medicines once the period of patent protection or exclusivity has lapsed on a new medicine.

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