Dr. Galson Quotes on Medicine & Medical (4 Quotes)

We're working to evaluate the potential risks and determine whether there is a need for further action. In the meantime, we advise providers to carefully assess the benefits and risks of the drug for their patients.

This approval is another example of the benefits of our agency's 'orphan' drugs program, which seeks to answer the medical needs of small groups of patients. The doctors who perform approximately 2,200 heart transplants in the U. S. each year will now have a new option for enhancing successful outcomes by preventing the rejection of the grafted organs.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease had only one way to treat their condition. It is our hope that the availability of inhaled insulin will offer patients more options to better control their blood sugars.

Phase 2 studies are typically well controlled and closely monitored and may involve up to several hundred patients. At the conclusion of these studies, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the sponsor usually meet to determine how the drug's development should be studied in Phase 3 and how to design and conduct further trials.