Market Exclusivity and Changes in Competition and Prices Associated With the US Food and Drug Administration Unapproved Drug Initiative

In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Unapproved Drug Initiative (UDI) to document supporting data for several thousand drugs that had remained on the US market continually since before the agency began reviewing safety and effectiveness in 1938.1 As an incentive, the FDA o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of internal medicine (1960) 2021-08, Vol.181 (8), p.1124-1126
Hauptverfasser: Gunter, Simon J, Kesselheim, Aaron S, Rome, Benjamin N
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Unapproved Drug Initiative (UDI) to document supporting data for several thousand drugs that had remained on the US market continually since before the agency began reviewing safety and effectiveness in 1938.1 As an incentive, the FDA offered market exclusivity to the first manufacturer to receive approval of a legacy drug.
ISSN:2168-6106
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DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.1989