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SUBMITTER: Lanthier ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8422864 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lanthier Michael L ML Kerr Kirk W KW Miller Kathleen L KL
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 20190726 5
Follow-on drugs-new medicines approved within an established drug class-provide incremental treatment improvements, additional choices for clinicians and patients, and potential price competition. We examine the timing, quantity, and product characteristics of within-class drug approvals for new drug classes approved by the US Food and Drug Administration since January 1986. We find that nearly two-thirds of first-in-class drugs do not face a subsequent follow-on product. Follow-on innovation wi ...[more]