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Specialized scientific liaisons will be key to moving rare disease drugs through the Accelerating Rare Disease Cures (ARC) Program, according to CDER Director Patrizia Cavazzoni. Read More
When preparing for meetings with regulators, it is essential that you view them as partners in the drug development process. Mark Lane, Adair Turner and Patrick Larcier of PharmaLex outline some key steps in the process.Read More
Eisai’s antiamyloid antibody Leqembi (lecanemab) got a unanimous 6-0 thumbs-up from members of the FDA’s Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems Drugs Advisory Committee, who agreed that CLARITY-AD, the drug’s confirmatory study, showed that it conferred a significant clinical benefit to patients with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
The FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee, meeting Thursday, was overwhelmingly positive in its assessment of benefits and risks of AstraZeneca’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) preventive treatment, nirsevimab, for children. Read More
New FDA drug approvals in May include the first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, a hot flash treatment for menopausal women, a gene therapy for a rare skin disease and the first and only treatment for a rare hematologic disorder. Additionally, the FDA approved a next-generation sequencing-based companion diagnostic test for solid tumor profiling. Read More
Persisting first through an FDA complete response letter (CRL), and then through a denial of a formal dispute resolution request, Akebia Pharmaceuticals is now counting on Japanese postmarketing safety data to get vadadustat, its chronic kidney disease (CKD) anemia drug, over the finish line in the U.S. Read More
Medicare will pay for treatment with any antiamyloid antibody that is fully approved by the FDA and administered as part of a national registry run by CMS, according to the agency. Read More