Collectively, we should be able to apply pressure to the FDA to speed approval of XIAFLEX?
Does anybody know how? Should we all contact our Senators and Representatives?

Update on collagenase-XIAFLEX for the Treatment of DC

Someone posted this link to this article elsewhere in the forum:

"Mar 02, 2009 20:00 ET
Auxilium Submits Biologics License Application for XIAFLEXTM for the Treatment of Dupuytren's Contracture to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

MALVERN, PA--(Marketwire - March 2, 2009) - Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL),
a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has submitted a Biologics
License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for XIAFLEX™
(clostridial collagenase for injection), a novel, first-in-class, orphan-designated biologic for the treatment of Dupuytren's contracture."

For the complete article, go to:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/...UXL-956331.html