The drug's benefits are simply to lower blood sugar, something that is not a morbidity and mortality advantage, so my view is that safety has to be very clear before you're going to approve it, and we have 15 other drugs to lower blood sugar, ... In my view, it didn't make any sense to approve the drug.
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I felt that that committee that voted 8-to-1 was simply missing the boat, ... I didn't think they connected the dots.
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