Of the 93 medicines authorized by the European Medicines Agency in 2015, 39 contained new active substances.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by EMA's own official publications and independently corroborated by multiple trade press outlets reporting the same figures.
Sources
- Farmacoepidemiologia documentazione in Europa (epicentro.iss.it)
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/human-medicines-highlights-2015 (ema.europa.eu)
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/progress-science-medicine-health (ema.europa.eu)
- https://www.raps.org/resource/ema-s-2015-annual-report-interest-in-scientific-a.html (raps.org)
- https://www.raps.org/resource/ema-carries-2014-momentum-recommends-39-new-drugs.html (raps.org)
- https://www.thepharmaletter.com/pharma-news/ema-recommends-93-medicine-for-approval-39-new-active-substances-in-2015 (thepharmaletter.com)