2018 New Drugs Approvals: An All-Time Record, and a Watershed

Sean Preci
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January 14, 2019

For months, it had been clear that 2018 would be a banner year for pharmaceutical innovation. The question was, by how much would it shatter the previous (1996) record of 50 approvals (excluding diagnostics and imaging agents)? We now know.

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