UPDATE 1-U.S. FDA panel backs claim Lilly diabetes drug cuts cardiac death
June 28, 2016 at 16:47 PM EDT
June 28 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co and Boehringer Ingelheim should be allowed to claim that their diabetes drug Jardiance cuts the risk of cardiovascular death, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded on Tuesday.