FDA's Oct. 21 approval of Merck & Co. Inc.'s Zinplava brings to 19 the number of novel agents approved by CDER in 2016, a year that so far has seen a slower pace of new product approvals, with an upturn in complete response letters – a marked contrast to the past few years of record approval counts.
With two months remaining, 2016 has now passed the worst year of the 2000s for new molecular entity and novel...





