Tale Of Two Adcomms: US FDA Handling Of Entresto Data May Have Helped Avoid Aducanumab’s Fate
Executive Summary
Review divisions strongly encouraged filing of both the Novartis and Biogen drugs despite trials that missed their primary endpoints; with the heart failure drug, the agency took a more even-handed approach to presenting the data and was commended for its willingness to look beyond the narrowly missed p-value, in contrast to the barrage of criticism it faced with the Alzheimer’s drug.