Regulators and drug companies have to be prepared for the challenges that are likely to come from the increasing involvement of civil society in matters relating to drug evaluation, according to the second-in-command at the European Medicines Agency. It may backfire, the EMA’s deputy executive director, Noel Wathion, told a conference. “We have to be realistic,” he said.
Civil society at large is no longer satisfied with knowing only the outcome of the scientific review process or with...







