Columbia Laboratories and Watson Pharmaceuticals Confirm FDA Advisory Committee to Review Preterm Birth NDA

Columbia Laboratories, Inc.

, and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

, today confirmed that the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to review Columbia's New Drug Application for progesterone vaginal gel for the reduction of risk of preterm birth in women with short uterine cervical length regardless of other risk factors in the mid-trimester of pregnancy on January 20, 2012.