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FDA Advisory Panel Vacancies Fill as Hill Pushes Softer Conflict Rules

December 14, 2011
As Congress and industry have been pushing to relax conflict-of-interest rules for FDA advisory panels, citing vacancies on device-related committees, the agency has reduced that vacancy rate from 35 percent to 20 percent.
Devices & Diagnostics Letter