FDA to GSK: No go on Avodart for prostate cancer
The Food and Drug Administration has denied GlaxoSmithKline's application to add prostate cancer reduction to the indications for Avodart, a drug used to treat an enlarged prostate.
The Food and Drug Administration has denied GlaxoSmithKline's application to add prostate cancer reduction to the indications for Avodart, a drug used to treat an enlarged prostate.
Would the Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommend that the labels of two drugs -- dutasteride, made by GlaxoSmithKline and sold as Avodart; and finasteride, a generic made by Merck and sold as Proscar -- be changed to say they can reduce a man's risk of getting prostate cancer? The answer was no, reports the New York Times.
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