How a New Understanding of Drug or Drug Class Pharmacology Often Drives Drug Development: A Conversation with Steven E. Nissen, MD

Abstract

This video interview features Steven Nissen, MD, telling his 2007 story of revealing that the number-1 diabetes drug, rosiglitazone, led to more cardiovascular events than placebo or a variety of competitors. The discovery resulted in new requirements for clinical trials to rule out harm. It focuses on how a new understanding of drug or drug class pharmacology often drives drug development, and includes a discussion of the approval process, which may bring a different result than was originally intended. View the video at https://youtu. be/aFtCfZyd54E.