2019 FDA drug approvals (original) (raw)

The FDA approved 48 new drugs last year, keeping up the momentum of recent years.

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 48 novel drugs in 2019 (Table 1). Although this approval count falls short of CDER’s record 59 approvals of 2018, it still comes in as the third biggest approval class in the past 25 years (Fig. 1).

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 19, 79-84 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-020-00001-7