With the PDUFA date for Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ -0.46%) SGLT-2 inhibitor Invokana just around the corner, the FDA will soon deliberate on another Type 2 diabetes drug that belongs to the same class: Eli Lilly's (LLY 1.19%) empagliflozin. Can these drugs get the green light, or will the FDA require both companies to run more clinical trials? Is the FDA's rejection of Forxiga, an SGLT-2 inhibitor developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY 0.34%) and AstraZeneca (AZN 0.19%) a signal that these drugs will face an uphill battle during the approval process? Health-care analyst Max Macaluso discusses these topics in the following video.
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