[CarolynS]

FDA: Here’s How to Develop Drug Combinations

Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2010, 5:57 PM ET
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/12/.../?KEYWORDS=FDA

The FDA today issued draft guidelines designed to encourage companies to work in tandem to develop two or more new drugs to be used in combination to treat cancer and infectious diseases, among other illnesses.

At a session today at the Partnering for Cures meeting — sponsored by Michael Milken’s FasterCures group — FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the new guidelines are the result of a growing understanding that experimental therapies may need to be used together in order to be more effective or to prevent drug resistance.

[lurkingforacure]

Given how long it takes any company to bring a drug to market (not laying blame here, it's both regulatory, liability, and science), I'll hold my breath on this one.

I love the comment about how issues involving liability and IP are "show stoppers". Apparently actually finding a cure for any disease in the last fifty years is also a "show stopper".