FDA Deliberates on an Emerging Type 2 Diabetes Drug Class

With the PDUFA date for Johnson & Johnson's SGLT-2 inhibitor Invokana just around the corner, the FDA will soon deliberate on another Type 2 diabetes drug that belongs to the same class: Eli Lilly's empagliflozin. Can these drugs get the green light, or will the FDA require both companies to run more clinical trials? Is the FDA's rejection of Forxiga, an SGLT-2 inhibitor developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca a signal that these drugs will face an uphill battle during the approval process? Health-care analyst Max Macaluso discusses these topics in the following video.

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