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The Medicines Company’s Kengreal may be on the road to approval, with FDA reviewers backing its use as a post-angioplasty anticlotting agent one year after the agency rejected the drug for this and another indication. Read More
Pharma companies can expect to wait about 165 days for Health Canada to make a final decision on appeals of drug’s approval or rejection, according to April 1 guidance that sets specific timelines for every step of the dispute resolution process. Read More
Australian drugmakers want the government to create fast-track approval pathways for new cancer drugs, as well as parallel review processes that simultaneously assess safety and efficacy and reimbursement eligibility for new drugs. Read More
Sponsors of brand, generic and biosimilar drugs applying for marketing authorization through the EU’s centralized procedure must begin including facility inspection information in their applications. Read More
China’s drug approval backlog ballooned to nearly 18,600 applications by the end of 2014, up more than 30 percent from December 2013, with generics applications representing most of the increase. Read More
The FDA has granted Shire’s dry eye treatment lifitegrast a priority review, cutting its NDA review time to six months rather than the usual 10 months. Read More
Novo Nordisk is moving forward two years after the FDA rejected two insulin therapies, with the agency’s agreement to review Class II resubmissions of its NDAs for Tresiba and Ryzodeg drugs based on an interim analysis of data from a cardiovascular outcomes study. Read More